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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.

Jessie B. Rittenhouse1869–1948

Paradox

I WENT out to the woods to-day

To hide away from you,

From you a thousand miles away—

But you came, too.

And yet the old dull thought would stay,

And all my heart benumb—

If you were but a mile away

You would not come.