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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.

Gelett Burgess1866–1951

Psycholophon:

Supposed to Be Translated from the Old Parsee

TWINE then the rays

Round her soft Theban tissues.

All will be as She says,

When the dead Past reissues.

Matters not what nor where,

Hark, to the moon’s dim cluster!

How was her heavy hair

Lithe as a feather-duster!

Matters not when nor whence;

Flittertigibbet!

Sound make the song, not sense,

Thus I inhibit!