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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Branches

Nelson Antrim Crawford

From “Fragilities”

PIERRE GRIS,

When an old man,

Saw winter branches

Brown, grey, dulled silver.

These, he said, are the no longer green

Hopes of my youth.

They seem to interlace,

But I remember that that is

Illusion.