Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (18691948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917. |
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115. The New Life |
| By Witter Bynner |
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PERHAPS they laughed at Dante in his youth, | |
Told him that truth | |
Had unappealably been said | |
In the great masterpieces of the dead: | |
Perhaps he listened and but bowed his head | 5 |
In acquiescent honour, while his heart | |
Held natal tidings,that a new life is the part | |
Of every man thats born, | |
A new life never lived before, | |
And a new expectant art; | 10 |
It is the variations of the morn | |
That are forever, more and more, | |
The single dawning of the single truth. | |
So answers Dante to the heart of youth! | |
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