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

The Silly Ewe

Evelyn Scott

THE SILLY ewe comes smelling up to me.

Her tail wriggles without hinges,

Both ends of it at once and equal.

Yesterday the parrot bit her;

Last week the jaguar ate her young one;

But experience teaches her nothing.