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

Vision

Alice Brown

MOTHER, I have come home to you

Out of my sore distress.

Mother, how beautiful you are

In your dull working dress!

“Then if you see me so, dear child,”

I heard my mother say,

“See, too, the beauty of the soul

In her worn dress of clay.”