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

Wild Aster

John Russell McCarthy

WITH goldenrod now hand-in-hand,

Gay summer, rich and full of days,

Sends forth your proud and kingly band

To lead her down the silent ways.

And none that knows the path to death

Goes with a statelier, prouder tread.

Sing, Aster, with your dying breath,

The haughty paeans of the dead!