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

Difference

Dorothy Butts

From “The Passers-by”

IF you will wander, so shall I—

In opposite directions ply

Our irresistible two ways

Into the nights, into the days.

The east and west shall draw apart,

Like magnets, your heart from my heart.

……….

How vain our tears now we have seen

That east and west have common lures.

You were my magnet—I was yours,

With all the world between.