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GARDEN CITY, N. Y. DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, INC. MCMXXX
COPYRIGHT, 1929, 1930 BY STANLEY J. KUNITZ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS GARDEN CITY, N. Y. FIRST EDITION
TO HELEN PEARCE
“For the tear is an intellectual thing.” WILLIAM BLAKE
Certain of these poems have appeared in THE DIAL THE NEW AMERICAN CARAVAN POETRY: A Magazine of Verse THE NATION THE NEW REPUBLIC THE COMMONWEAL HERALD-TRIBUNE BOOKS HOUND AND HORN