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ILLUSION by AMY LOWELL

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First Line: WALKING BESIDE THE TREE-PEONIES
Last Line: Which supports the statue of Buddha
Subject(s): BEETLES;
Walking beside the tree-peonies,
I saw a beetle
Whose wings were of black lacquer spotted with milk.
I would have caught it,
But it ran from me swiftly
And hid under the stone lotus
Which supports the statue of Buddha.



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