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

Fame

Alice Corbin

From “Candle-light and Sun”

FAME is an echo

Far off, remote—

But love is a sweetness

You taste in the throat,

Friendship a comfort

When twilight falls.

But fame is an echo

Through empty halls.