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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936).  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.  1912–22.
 
Compensation
By Richard Aldington
 
In France (1916–1918)

AS I dozed in a chilly dug-out
I dreamt that Li-Taï-Pé, the sage,
And Sappho, the divine Lesbian,
And Abou-Nawas, the friend of Khalifs,
Came to me saying:        5
“There can be no death of beauty;
Endure—we also suffered.”
 
And for a token of their love they gave me
A gold chrysanthemum, a fiery rose,
And a cleft-open, dew-wet nectarine.        10
 
 
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