| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Pageant | | By Thomas Wood Stevens |
| | | GREEN the buds of Easter, | |
| Warm the winds of May; | |
| Autumn like a feaster | |
| In merry disarray. | |
| But Winter follows, tracks him down, | 5 |
| Winter in his ermine gown. | |
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| Youth in scarlet stockings, | |
| Garlands for a crown, | |
| Making mouths and mockings | |
| After Age in brown. | 10 |
| But velvet never stood the rain, | |
| And long’s the road to the Keep o’ Spain. | |
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| Love in silken weather | |
| Never yet was slain; | |
| But love must take to leather, | 15 |
| Hie him off again. | |
| For Love must hang, the sheriff saith, | |
| The grizzled, watchful sheriff Death. . . . . . . . . . | |
| Morning, night and morrow, | |
| On through life and time— | 20 |
| For all the cares we borrow, | |
| For all the songs we rhyme: | |
| Love and Youth will roister so, | |
| And Age is patient, Death is slow. | | | | |
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