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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 Jonquils

I HAVE heard that a certain princess, when she found that she had been married by a demon, wove a wreath of jonquils and sent it to the lover of former days.