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

No Good Thing

Marx G. Sabel

IT is no good thing

Even on a dark night

To clutch a memory for guidance.

I know, because I have tried it

Confidently.

I walked on in the dark night

Remembering.

I walked on and on,

Yet no star shone,

And there was no light nor even any ghost of light

Ever

To guide me.

I shall walk on in the dark night

Forgetting.

I shall clutch no memory for guidance.

I shall walk on and on,

Accepting the darkness

Proudfully, fearlessly, without hope.

For it is no good thing

Even on a dark night

To clutch a memory for guidance.