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size="-1">(18781962).</font>  Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.  <font size="-1">1920.</font></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td align="CENTER"><font color="#9C9C63" size="+1"><b>He Did Not Know</b></font></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td align="CENTER"><font color="#9C9C63">Harry Kemp</font></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr>  </table> <table align="CENTER" border="0" width="601" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <tr><td><table align="CENTER" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">  <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>H<font size="-1">E</font> did not know that he was dead;</td><td><a name="1"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  He walked along the crowded street,</td><td><a name="2"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>Smiled, tipped his hat, nodded his head</td><td><a name="3"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  To his friends he chanced to meet.</td><td><a name="4"></a></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>And yet they passed him quietly by</td><td valign="TOP" align="RIGHT"><font size="-2"><a name="5"><i>        5</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  With an unknowing, level stare;</td><td><a name="6"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>They met him with an abstract eye</td><td><a name="7"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  As if he were the air.</td><td><a name="8"></a></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Some sorry thing has come to pass,</td><td><a name="9"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  The dead man thought; he hurried home,</td><td valign="TOP" align="RIGHT"><font size="-2"><a name="10"><i>        10</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>And found his wife before her glass,</td><td><a name="11"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  Dallying with a comb.</td><td><a name="12"></a></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>He found his wife all dressed in black;</td><td><a name="13"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  He kissed her mouth, he stroked her head.</td><td><a name="14"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>Men act so strange since Ive come back</td><td valign="TOP" align="RIGHT"><font size="-2"><a name="15"><i>        15</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  From over there, he said.</td><td><a name="16"></a></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>She spoke no word; she only smiled.</td><td><a name="17"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  But now he heard her say his name,</td><td><a name="18"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>And saw her study, grief-beguiled,</td><td><a name="19"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  His picture in a frame.</td><td valign="TOP" align="RIGHT"><font size="-2"><a name="20"><i>        20</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Then he remembered that black night</td><td><a name="21"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  And the great shell-burst, wide and red,</td><td><a name="22"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>The sudden plunging into light;</td><td><a name="23"></a></td></tr> <tr><td>  And knew that he was dead.<br><br>  <font size="-1"><i>The Century Magazine</i></font></td><td><a name="24"></a></td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table>   <table align="CENTER" width="601" 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