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

I Saw the World Go by

Alice Corbin

From “Songs from a Book of Airs”

I SAW the world go by:

With crimson banners flying,

And loud bugles crying,

The young world went by.

I saw the world go by:

Footsore and weary,

Banners torn and dreary,

The old world went by.

I saw the world go by—

And laughed to see it going,

And cried to see it going,

And while I watched it going,

The world went by!