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

A Fillet of Thorn

Anita Grannis

TELL me, how can I sing

Who have not tasted pain?—

Who, having grieved an hour,

Laugh and am glad again?

It will take a winter of frost,

Aching and storm-filled years,

Before I am lord of life,

Before I am king of tears.