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

The Pledge

By Adelaide Crapsey

WHITE doves of Cytherea, by your quest

Across the blue Heaven’s bluest highest air,

And by your certain homing to Love’s breast,

Still to be true and ever true—I swear.