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

The Topaz of the Sixties

Marsden Hartley

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.