| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
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| EVERY year Emily Dickinson sent one friend | |
| the first arbutus bud in her garden. | |
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| In a last will and testament Andrew Jackson | |
| remembered a friend with the gift of George | |
| Washington’s pocket spy-glass. | 5 |
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| Napoleon too, in a last testament, mentioned a silver | |
| watch taken from the bedroom of Frederick the Great, | |
| and passed along this trophy to a particular friend. | |
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| O. Henry took a blood carnation from his coat lapel | |
| and handed it to a country girl starting work in a | 10 |
| bean bazaar, and scribbled: “Peach blossoms may or | |
| may not stay pink in city dust.” | |
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| So it goes. Some things we buy, some not. | |
| Tom Jefferson was proud of his radishes, and Abe Lincoln | |
| blacked his own boots, and Bismarck called Berlin a wilderness of brick and newspapers. | 15 |
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| So it goes. There are accomplished facts. | |
| Ride, ride, ride on in the great new blimps— | |
| Cross unheard-of oceans, circle the planet. | |
| When you come back we may sit by five hollyhocks. | |
| We might listen to boys fighting for marbles. | 20 |
| The grasshopper will look good to us. | |
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So it goes….
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