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

Santa Maria del Rio

Grace Hazard Conkling

From “Out of Mexico”

GIVE me crystal words

To tell you about the water that runs down the desert leaving a wake of orange-trees;

And words made of opals

To tell you how the hummingbirds look and what the nightingales say.