“No water so still as the
dead fountains of Versailles.”No swan,
with swart blind look askance
and gondoliering legs, so fine
as the chintz china one with fawn- 5
brown eyes and toothed gold
collar on to show whose bird it was.
Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth
Candelabrum-tree of cockscomb-
tinted buttons, dahlias, 10
sea urchins, and everlastings,
it perches on the branching foam
of polished sculptured
flowers-at ease and tall. The king is dead.
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