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

A Book on Economics

Haniel Long

From “On the Road”

BETWEEN long rows of figures lurk

Pictures of little boys at work.

And how poor women fade away

Page after page the margins say.

And in a note once in a while

I see death freeze a baby’s smile.