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SEEN AND UNSEEN, by                    
First Line: A marble courtyard
Last Line: Unnoticed on the chill marble.
Subject(s): Contrariness; Vision


A marble courtyard
Dazzling with yellow sunlight,
Great green-bronze peacocks
Puffed with pride,
Displaying their burnished beauty
To an admiring crowd
Who love purple and arrogance . . .
Little white doves of truth
Unnoticed on the chill marble.





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