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

David

Florence Ripley Mastin

From “School Room Sketches”

DAVID, you failed—

Yet every face is dim but yours.

David, you failed—

Yet still I see your hands.

You will always fail—

You are too big to succeed

In the swift years before death.