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

Requiem

Wade Oliver

IN dreamless, uncomplaining sleep

Beside the dreaming sea she lies,

Untouched by lyric loveliness

Of bird and wave and windy skies.

Yet, loving loveliness, she made

More lovely all she gazed upon,

And every May shall plead her cause

With silence and oblivion.