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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Ellen Mackay HutchinsonCortissoz

1122 So Wags the World

MEMORY cannot linger long,

Joy must die the death.

Hope’s like a little silver song

Fading in a breath.

So wags the weary world away

Forever and a day.

But love, that sweetest madness,

Leaps and grows in toil and sadness,

Makes unseeing eyes to see,

And heapeth wealth in penury.

So wags the good old world away

Forever and a day.