• In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

    Elinor Wylie: In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
    Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press