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

Cuernavaca

Grace Hazard Conkling

From “Songs for Places”
Old Mexico

YOU would not keep me near you,

You could not hold me far,

And now it does not matter

Where you are.

My heart has long forgotten

The ardent words you said,

But not the great stars blazing

Overhead.