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Peacock Pie

by Walter de la Mare

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Beasts

Unstooping

Low on his fours the Lion
  Treads with the surly Bear’,
  But Men straight upward from the dust
  Walk with their heads in air;
  The free sweet winds of heaven,
  The sunlight from on high
  Beat on their clear bright cheeks and brows
  As they go striding by;
  The doors of all their houses
  They arch so they may go,
  Uplifted o’er the four-foot beasts,
  Unstooping, to and fro.

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