William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.
Three Girls
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Two of them go in the fluttery way
Of girls, with all that girlhood buys;
But one goes with a dream in her eyes,
Whose hair is learning scorn of curls,
But the eyes of one are like wide doors
Opening out on misted shores.
On to the end of life’s short way;
Two will have what living buys,
And one will have the dream in her eyes.
And fitly dust will welcome dust;
But dust has nothing to do with one—
She dies as soon as her dream is done.