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Poems - 4. Shame
Witness the great man in this hour—
A proud man and his intolerable tears,
With the fool’s mark hung around his ears.
The rich ochre of his virtue is faded,
And the crown-bearing trumpeter dead.
Witness the great man now fallen,
Stripped, lashed, bewildered by himself;
The vain cannot bear to look upon themselves.
Poor man! The world pens him in his mind
And blows his nakedness with a gay wind.
Now witness the slop-dished, half-mad mouths
From whom the king beseeches gentle mercy—
The king watches beggars with his eyes, secretly;
A soft word from crazed mouths, secretly.
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