Waring Cuney, "A Triviality" (1927)
By Waring Cuney
Not to dance with her
Was such a trivial thing.
There were girls more fair than she,—
Today
Ten girls dressed in white.
Each had a white rose wreath.
They made a dead man’s arch
And ten strong men
Carried a body through.
Not to dance with her
Was a trivial thing.
Published in Opportunity, November 1927