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

Patio Scene

Grace Hazard Conkling

From “Out of Mexico”

PEPE is sailing a ship

Across the fountain-basin of gold and white tiles.

The ship is a gardenia,

And the skipper is a small oblong beetle

In a jacket of chintz.