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

Adoration

Hazel C. Hutchison

THE NIGHT has let down her warm dark hair,

Powdered with stardust.

She has broken the alabaster box

Of ointment.

She anoints the feet of her god

In a passion of fragrance.

Languorously

She caresses them with the dark of her hair.