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

The Topaz of the Sixties

Marsden Hartley

From “Sunlight Persuasions”

IN the little tired spring,

Weary with the years of bubbling,

Deep down to where the gold sand comes to light

Again,

I see wreaths and wreaths of smiles.

“L’amour quand-même!”

The gold bird in the cage exclaims.

“L’amour quand-même!”—reiterates the lark

To the dahlias and the petunia buds

In the garden.

“L’amour—quand-même!”

Sings the nightingale in the plum-boughs,

Where the clematis shuts the window in

With fragrant fringe.

Once it was a precious stone—

Long, long, ago.