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FACADE: 11. THE OCTOGENARIAN, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: The octogenarian
Last Line: Vast moon azoic.


THE octogenarian
Leaned from his window,
To the valerian
Growing below
Said "My nightcap
Is only the gap
In the trembling thorn
Where the mild unicorn
With the little Infanta
Danced the lavolta
(Clapping hands: molto
Lent' eleganta)."
The man with the lanthorn
Peers high and low;
No more
Than a snore
As he walks to and fro. . . .
Il Dottore the stoic
Culls silver herb
Beneath the superb
Vast moon azoic.





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