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

Knowledge

Louise Bogan

From “Beginning and End”

NOW that I know

That passion warms little

Of flesh in the mold,

And treasure is brittle,

I’ll lie here and learn

How, over their ground,

Trees make a long shadow

And a light sound.