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

Pause

Louis Gilmore

From “Inventions”

IF it were to become

Complete;

If

All of a sudden

Everything were to hold its breath:

Surely

The walls of the city

Would be cast down

With a terrible noise.