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

I Give Smiles

Marion Strobel

From “That Year”

YOU are the reaching out in me,

The supplication of my folded hands.

You are the breaking radiance of my hope—

My high desire.

I will give you a gay futility of smiles,

For I cannot fill the vastnesses

With which you stretch my life

To emptiness.