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

Song

Alice Corbin

A KING’S but a puppet,

A lover a fool,

A sage is a wise man

Who was never at school:

Then why should I bother

To read in a book?

The world is my fancy

Wherever I look.