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

Spouts

William Carlos Williams

IN this world of

as fine a pair of breasts

as ever I saw,

the fountain in

Madison Square

spouts up of water

a white tree,

that dies and lives

as the rocking water

in the basin

turns from the stone rim

back upon the jet

and rising there

reflectively drops down again.