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

The Parade

Dorothy Butts

From “The Passers-by”

FACES, laughing and torch-lit,

Passing and passing—

Laughing and torch-lit and passing!

Voices, crying and shouting,

Dying and dying—

Crying and shouting and dying!

Drums, beating and thumping,

Retreating, retreating—

Beating and thumping, retreating!

Gone! There remains but the heat

Of the August night-wind

Blowing a leaf down the street.