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

Insouciance

Richard Aldington

In France (1916–1918)

IN and out of the dreary trenches,

Trudging cheerily under the stars,

I make for myself little poems

Delicate as a flock of doves.

They fly away like white-winged doves.