| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
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| Three Girls |
| | | Hazel Hall |
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| THREE school-girls pass this way each day: | |
| Two of them go in the fluttery way | |
| Of girls, with all that girlhood buys; | |
| But one goes with a dream in her eyes, | |
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| Two of them have the eyes of girls | 5 |
| Whose hair is learning scorn of curls, | |
| But the eyes of one are like wide doors | |
| Opening out on misted shores. | |
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| And they will go as they go to-day | |
| On to the end of life’s short way; | 10 |
| Two will have what living buys, | |
| And one will have the dream in her eyes. | |
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| Two will die as many must, | |
| And fitly dust will welcome dust; | |
| But dust has nothing to do with one— | 15 |
She dies as soon as her dream is done.
The Century Magazine | |
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