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

Wisdom through Tears

Miriam Allen deFord

I CANNOT seek to hold you—

Holding is losing:

Never my arms can fold you

But by your choosing.

What if beside me lie

Flesh and blood merely;

And the soul wanders high

I love so dearly?