Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Requiem

Margaret DeLaughter

ALL the love, the love we gave them;

Tears, unanswered prayers to save them!

Now, what is there left to show?—

Wooden crosses in a row!

They wore their crown of thorns so lightly,

June still blossoms just as brightly.

How can laughing roses know

Of wooden crosses in a row?

Is it, then, so sweet, their sleeping?

After all, was life worth keeping?

There they lie, and none may know—

Wooden crosses in a row.