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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)1879–1944

The Old Woman

AS a white candle

In a holy place,

So is the beauty

Of an aged face.

As the spent radiance

Of the winter sun,

So is a woman

With her travail done,

Her brood gone from her,

And her thoughts as still

As the waters

Under a ruined mill.