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

Of Ruined Cities

Eve Brodlique Summers

SOISSONS and Cambrai, Noyon and Verdun—

Dear dead, with beauty on them as they lie!

But Ypres and Lens, beneath the shining sky,

Are skeletons slow bleaching in the sun!