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SCHERZA RIMA

 

The bullfinch, neck-deep in eyebright, passes

that inch of sparkling tin you saw

with hardly a ‘goodness’ and no ‘alases’.

 

He merely humphs his mayorish maw

and dots for beetles, the glare forgotten.

Not so the haggard black miser daw.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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