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

Cythaera and the Worm

Marjorie Allen Seiffert

SILENCE,

Spun from what you never said,

Is but a winding-sheet

In which a worm lies dead:

The worm of love,

A-spinning its cocoon

Of silken cloth,

Of delicate silence, whence so soon

It should emerge, a lunar moth.

O worm,

So royally interred,

Why should I dream pale wings about my head?