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

Battle

By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

The Going

HE’S gone.

I do not understand.

I only know

That as he turned to go

And waved his hand,

In his young eyes a sudden glory shone:

And I was dazzled by a sunset glow,

And he was gone.