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

Thomas S. Jones, Jr.1882–1932

Sometimes

ACROSS the fields of yesterday

He sometimes comes to me,

A little lad just back from play—

The lad I used to be.

And yet he smiles so wistfully

Once he has crept within,

I wonder if he hopes to see

The man I might have been.