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

Bougainvillea

Lucy Eddy

From “Valley and Mesa”

GARLANDS of royal purple;

Proud, regal notes of pageantry

Sounding imperial color;

A fanfare of trumpets

Triumphant, barbaric;

Bells and chimes and cymbals

Clanging crimson.