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TO A CERTAIN RICH MAN IN A CASTLE, by                    
First Line: These lovely things you never quite posess
Last Line: Remains one door your gold has never swung!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew
Subject(s): Castles


These lovely things you never quite possess --
Remains one door your gold has never swung!
These proud old panes that rich the dim recess
Where centuries have brushed their wings and clung;
This carving and these pages dark with dung
Of years that only chrome their mellowness;
These lovely things you never quite possess --
Remains one door your gold has never swung!
One sesame that roots in deep duress
You had no time to tend when you were young,
And though, today, a scutcheon takes your press
And roses twine for you the ancient rung,
These lovely things you never quite possess --
Remains one door your gold has never swung!





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