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Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.

Witter Bynner

Sentence

SHALL I say that what heaven gave

Earth has taken?—

Or that sleepers in the grave

Reawaken?

One sole sentence can I know,

Can I say:

You, my comrade, had to go,

I to stay.