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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922.

A Rose to the Living

A ROSE to the living is more

Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead;

In filling love’s infinite store,

A rose to the living is more,

If graciously given before

The hungering spirit is fled,—

A rose to the living is more

Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.