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

The Triple Shroud

Mason A. Freeman, Jr.

THIS is the triple shroud,

Spun of a single thread

On spindles of the whirling worlds

In thundering halls of dread;

It makes the living shine as flame,

And resurrects the dead.

Life is the shroud of love,

Woven of dust and breath.

Death is the shroud of life;

Love is the shroud of death.