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

The Asses’ Out-house

Marsden Hartley

THREE flies lay sleeping

In a cobweb shroud,

Dreaming of molasses, of jam,

And of heaps of offal.

The fourth swung by his ear.

He was a withering fokker

On its last tail spin.

His body was bluebottle;

His wings were grey

As his cobweb shroud,

Stitched with prism hues.

He was dreaming of old bones

On which to rear his young.