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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 1. THE GARGOYLE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT
First Line: Who carved that little gargoyle?
Last Line: And sometimes think of me?
Subject(s): Statues
First Line: Who carved that little gargoyle?
Last Line: And sometimes think of me?
Subject(s): Statues
Who carved that little gargoyle?
What is it doing there
In that little crooked Breton Street
That leads into the square?
Who placed it on that tiny house
To be peering down --
The only little gargoyle,
The lost little gargoyle,
Not another little gargoyle
In all that little town?
Who placed it on that Breton house,
Hunched underneath the eaves,
To be in hiding half the year
Behind the poplar leaves?
And oh, why did he put it there,
Leaning on the summer air?
* * * * *
I want to carve a gargoyle --
You ought to have one too.
I'd carve it on your little house
The way these Frenchmen do,
Close set beside your window
For company for you.
If I carved it very neatly,
Might it ever chance to be
You would lean out and look at it
And sometimes think of me?
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