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

What Dim Arcadian Pastures

By Alice Corbin

WHAT dim Arcadian pastures

Have I known

That suddenly, out of nothing,

A wind is blown,

Lifting a veil and a darkness,

Showing a purple sea—

And under your hair the faun’s eyes

Look out on me?