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Marsden Hartley
Prometheus fire
Never can worship
The smell of hams and hocks
Issuing from the smokehouse.
The odours of the street
Hold enticements
That bear entertaining.
There is at least
The tincture of virility
Present.
This poem is in the public domain, and originally appeared in Others for
1919; An Anthology of the New Verse (Nicholas L. Brown, 1920).