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

San Luis Potosi

Grace Hazard Conkling

From “Songs for Places”
Old Mexico

OH, for the comet’s trail

Across the purple sky,

So far we could not hear

The glory rushing by!

It will not come again

For more than ninety years,

When we shall have forgotten

All our tears!