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

Portrait of an Old Roué

Hi Simons

From “Incidentals”

THE SEEDS of his sin

Thrust tiny red roots

Among the cell-crevices of his face.

Now their minute purple tendrils

Trace, on his cheeks and nose,

Vine-patterns as intricately beautiful

As his fastidious iniquities.