| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| God’s Acre |
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| BECAUSE we felt there could not be | |
| A mowing in reality | |
| So white and feathery-blown and gay | |
| With blossoms of wild caraway, | |
| I said to Celia, “Let us trace | 5 |
| The secret of this pleasant place!” | |
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| We knew some deeper beauty lay | |
| Below the bloom of caraway, | |
| And when we bent the white aside | |
| We came to paupers who had died: | 10 |
| Rough wooden shingles row on row, | |
| And God’s name written there—John Doe. | |
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