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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A RIBBON TWO YARDS WIDE....., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography
First Line: They wind a thousand soldiers round the king
Last Line: To feed the faithful eye with superstition.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soldiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens
First Line: They wind a thousand soldiers round the king
Last Line: To feed the faithful eye with superstition.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soldiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens
They wind a thousand soldiers round the king,
So he may go and hear the symphony,
Square squads of rhythmic lancers fashioning
A boulevard of measured liberty,
A ribbon two yards wide whereon the thing
May prance atop a wooden steed, quite free
From any heretic outside the ring
Who might deprive him of his puppetry:
The populace applaud the miracle,
Their heads and arms, attached to hidden strings,
Acclaim the venerable vehicle
Precisely one of God's imaginings:
The king rides like a ghost on exhibition
To feed the faithful eye with superstition.
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