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Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

Witter Bynner

Veils

THIS veil

Of lavender and dawn

Floats off

Invisible,

And this of purple noon

Unwinds in wisdom,

And this of evening

Twitters, undulates,

Dips, darts,

And this of night

Circles around me singing

To the very edge and presence of the young moon—

And it brushes the tip

Like lips

Three times.