Friday 15 June 2012


THE DEAD PARISH 

Tarrying in Great Auspiciousness Street
I saw afar in what hidden way
The lovely tombstones rise  

Against plate jewels apartments coronets;
Patents of honour titles precedents.
And farther off the spearmint prince,  

Dying of thirst beside the fountain:
Where there the state functionary
Charges a subject in the golden orange yellow 

Crepuscular prospect: those trees on a rising bank.
That composition of place, incarnadine;
Or round about in mountain meadows, 

Where they, the mistaken lying and deceived,
Could not suppress this side of it.




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