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

Huasteca

Grace Hazard Conkling

From “Songs for Places”
Old Mexico

ORCHID, elfin orchid,

Made of purple air,

Yours is wistful silence,

Hard to bear.

Were he here, my lover,

Wiser far than I,

We should hear your beauty

Sing and sigh.