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

Summons to Youth

Rudolph Altrocchi

EXULTANT youths who would bewail or vaunt

The odds of love, no longer waste your breath:

A greater feat now summons you than love

Or life itself—it’s war, and war is death!