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

Know Thyself

Louise Ayres Garnett

From “Flowers of War”

I SHALL not grudge the falling if I may have the fight,

For the soul of man is comfortless unless he prove his might.

Rather my body fall today unnoticed and unsought

Than I should hail tomorrow’s dawn with any fight unfought.