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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar

By Allen Upward

The Acacia Leaves

THE AGED man, when he beheld winter approaching, counted the leaves as they lapsed from the acacia trees; while his son was talking of the spring.