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

In Memory

Willard Wattles

Blest be the happy dead:

Where’er they lay their head,

Out-facers of pretence

Who have achieved indifference.

I will make his name silver,

I will loose it to run

In terrible beauty

From earth to the sun.

I will cast it in bronze

And carve it in jade,

And ring it in bells

That his memory made.

In beryl and jacinth,

In onyx and flame,

In pearl and chalcedony—

His beautiful name.

I will set it in rubies

Till it make the blood start,

And oh, I will wear it

In death on my heart!