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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: VI
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The Lyons fair! In truth it was a Heaven
 For idlers` eyes, a feast of curious things,
 Swings, roundabouts, and shows, the Champions Seven,
 Dramas of battles and the deaths of kings,
 The whole Place d`Armes grown white as if with snow,
 With canvas booths arrayed in triple lines,
 And jugglers, lions, snakes from Mexico,
 Dancers on tight ropes, clowns and columbines.
 I went among them all with grave intent,
 I, too, to find it may be some delight.
 I was a boy and knew not what life meant,
 Nor what the pleasures were men seek in it.
 Only I knew that mingling with that throng,
 I was a stranger a strange world among.
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