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

Triad

Arthur H. Nethercot

In the church of St. Pierre, August, 1918

OLD music wove its beauty through each word

Which echoed from the chancel down the nave.

Old beauty of fled twilights stained each beam,

Carved like the fingers of some soul in prayer.

A woman veiled in black knelt on the stone,

The beauty of old suffering on her face.