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    Jumbled in one common box
    Of their dark stupidity,
    Orchid, swan and Caesar lie;
    Time that tires of everyone
    Has corroded all the locks,
    Thrown away the key for fun.
    In its cleft a torrent mocks
    Prophets who in days gone by
    Made a profit on each cry,
    Persona grata now with none;
    And a jackass language shocks
    Poets who can only pun.

    Silence settles on the clocks;
    Nursing mothers point a sly
    Index finger at a sky,
    Crimson in the setting sun;
    In the valley of the fox
    Gleams the barrel of a gun.

    Once we could have made the docks,
    Now it is too late to fly;
    Once too often you and I
    Did what we should not have done;
    Round the rampant rugged rocks
    Rude and ragged rascals run.

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