Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

I Pray You

Mary Carolyn Davies

THE DEAD make rules, and I obey.

I, too, shall be dead some day.

Youth and maid who, past my death,

Have within your nostrils breath,

I pray you, for my own pain’s sake,

Break the rules that I shall make!