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

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Robert J. Roe

From “A Sailor’s Note-book”

IM Wellington port I quarrel with Alec

If ship is French or Swede full-rigger.

I get mighty hot,

Un Alec get pretty mad.

Un all of sudden I hear us

Like somebody was cracking straws in mine ear

Un I let Alec say I am wrong.