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

Epitaph for the Unburied Dead

Willard Wattles

THE OLD men sit and sit

Long after they are dead,

And no one seems to know of it—

They look so kind and staid.

The young men beat the bars

That hold them fast inside.

Then one day comes, they beat no more,

And know not they have died.