| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
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| Suddenly |
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| SUDDENLY flickered a flame, | |
| Suddenly fluttered a wing: | |
| What, can a dead bird sing? | |
| Somebody spoke your name. | |
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| Suddenly fluttered a wing, | 5 |
| Sounded a voice, the same, | |
| Somebody spoke your name: | |
| Oh, the remembering! | |
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| Sounded a voice, the same, | |
| Song of the heart’s green spring, | 10 |
| Oh, the remembering: | |
| Which of us was to blame? | |
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| Song of the heart’s green spring, | |
| Wings that still flutter, lame, | |
| Which of us was to blame?— | 15 |
God, the slow withering!
The Century Magazine | |
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