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Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

I. Admiration

To a Lady

John James Piatt (1835–1917)

On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully

YOU ask a verse, to sing (ah, laughing face!)

Your happy art of growing old with grace?

O Muse, begin, and let the truth—but hold!

First let me see that you are growing old.


Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD