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

At the Hospital for the Insane

Leonora Speyer

THEY said to me: “We are not crazy, dear!

But they are mad … and so they keep us here.”

I thought: “We are all mad!—in this walled place,

And out beyond, and through all time and space;

Save he who looks his madness in the face!”