| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919. |
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| John G. Neihardt. 1881– |
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| 87. Let Me Live Out My Years |
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| LET me live out my years in heat of blood! | |
| Let me die drunken with the dreamer's wine! | |
| Let me not see this soul-house built of mud | |
| Go toppling to the dusk—a vacant shrine. | |
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| Let me go quickly, like a candle light | 5 |
| Snuffed out just at the heyday of its glow. | |
| Give me high noon—and let it then be night! | |
| Thus would I go. | |
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| And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, | |
| My song may trumpet down the gray Perhaps. | 10 |
| Let me be as a tune-swept fiddlestring | |
| That feels the Master Melody—and snaps! | |
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