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

Without Words

Marion Strobel

THE SILENCE thins out—falls away

Before a vivid stillness

That we press

Nearer with words.

We say our usual ritual—close the day

With laughter, while the stillness spreads

A halo round our nodding heads.

Again we praise the little past, praise what is done;

Cling to the days we’ve lost,

And lose the hour we’ve won.