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

Conservatism

Evelyn Scott

From “Tropical Life”

THE TURKEYS,

Like hoop-skirted old ladies

Out walking,

Display their solemn propriety.

A terrible force,

Hungry and destructive,

Emanates from their mistily blinking eyes.