:The winds blew and the waters sang
:All summer: now that summer's done
:I can remember still the sun
:That lay upon the mountain grass,
:And all the beauty that there was -
:Only remember what was fair,
:And what was wild and innocent;
:The rest is blown upon the air.

Literary career

Despite weak health following an attack of tuberculosis in 1915, Woolsey moved to New York City in 1921, hoping to be an actress or a writer. Her first known published poem appeared in the New York Evening Post

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