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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Frank DempsterSherman

1373 Quatrains

HARK at the lips of this pink whorl of shell

And you shall hear the ocean’s surge and roar:

So in the quatrain’s measure, written well,

A thousand lines shall all be sung in four!

SERAGLIO of the Sultan Bee!

I listen at the waxen door,

And hear the zithern’s melody

And sound of dancing on the floor.

WITHIN this silent palace of the Night,

See how the moon, like some huge, phantom moth,

Creeps slowly up across the azure cloth

That hangs between the darkness and the light.