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

To a Flower

Suzette Herter

CHILD whose fairy eye

Is filled with azure dreams,

Gazing on the sky—

Youth today must bleed

On battlefields and die.

Thy loveliness, it seems,

Is but a lie.