On being asked for a War Poem
The poem was prefaced with a note stating: "It is the only thing I have written of the war or will write , so I hope it may not seem unfitting . " The poem was first published in Edith Wharton's "The Book of the Homeless" in 1916 as "A Reason for Keeping Silent" . 
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