| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (18851977). Modern American Poetry. 1919. |
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| Gelett Burgess. 1866 |
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38. Psycholophon:
Supposed to Be Translated from the Old Parsee |
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| TWINE then the rays | |
| Round her soft Theban tissues. | |
| All will be as She says, | |
| When the dead Past reissues. | |
| Matters not what nor where, | 5 |
| Hark, to the moon's dim cluster! | |
| How was her heavy hair | |
| Lithe as a feather-duster! | |
| Matters not when nor whence; | |
| Flittertigibbet! | 10 |
| Sound make the song, not sense, | |
| Thus I inhibit! | |
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