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

Under the Saman

Richard Butler Glaenzer

From “Crayons of Dominica”

UNDER the circular shadow of the jetty’s saman

Creamy high-humped cattle munch the sweet pods:

The zebus browse placidly against the blue and black

Of the sea and a distant promontory.

On this promontory de Bouillé defeated Stuart;

On this sea Rodney defeated de Grasse.