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its star tipped handy-pandies
darting on the air
Solemn and unsurprised
and clumsily
lapped by insensitive maternity
it lies
waving its brand new feet
and feeds
its mongrel heart on Benger’s food
for infants
MINA LOY
# NOTE:—“Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose” will be published in book form by the Contact Publishing
Company, before another issue of the Little Review can possibly appear. We will not continue the
poem in our next issue but close with the entrance of Esau Penfold.