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Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.

Bliss Carman

The Unreturning

THE OLD eternal spring once more

Comes back the sad eternal way,

With tender rosy light before

The going-out of day.

The great white moon across my door

A shadow in the twilight stirs;

But now forever comes no more

That wondrous look of Hers.