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in the aversion
of their reclaimed regards
from Evil

And among these a few blameless
bronchitic Britishers
had been plumped to die
and cauterized by the sun
also remained

to potter among the majolica
and share the spoils of vinyards
and of olive - vats
with analphabet peasants

## Palms

the aesthetic
tumulus of the Renaissance
had in bulk become
an official preserve -
Yet accidental airs of private ownership
pawning and disuse
had scattered minor deposits
upon the antiquarian's market
So

while big critics
ing attributbig things to the big masters
prospered on the percentage
fon their ~~their~~ guarrantees
connoisseurs
feeding the hungry dollar's
trans - Atlantic yelps for cultural sustenance
with wise cupidities practised on

7B

Still a mysterious notoriety of this smaller fry
swells with their modest gains
various grades of wily vestals
of the eternal flame of the unearned increment
fasten their right to exist
upon him battered figurines
of the catholic past

Being particularly condemned
Miss Hannover
an aging German jewess of British citizenship
nosing around over her ebony walking-stick
landing far too far for a consideration
the inconsiderable tourist
into the nets of cultural exponents
the little lecturers on the dead
and those having something to sell
and her 'so - they - said'
erstwhile paramour
Mr Poulton Leadbeater
estate - agent
- always invited to tea
alone exclusively on business by his clients -
had however procured
a significant trifle in the way of annunciations
which he would not expose
to single comers but
managed to convert it into
a social rendez-vous

where he
spluttered the spital
from his crowding teeth
in poulting kindesses
so cockney suave

So insiduously
a member of a set in class B
or even such a member ( as afore - mentioned ) of class C
would route around the precincts of class A
and squeeze himself
through incontestable openings
in antique burrowings
into a back - stairs association
with the hallo'ed circle
This inter - communion bringing
considerable profit to the inter - classicists
given
that the member of class B or even C
sufficiently fortified his collection
within a possible period of time
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upon the death

of any beloved member of class A
he was promoted to the pigeon-hole
evacuated by the defunct
This social preferrment through decease
worked automatically

In this so sorry slum
the English Rose whose roots
have undermapped the world
had barricaded

it's Pink of Purity
it's Conquestorial Blush
behind the frowning doors
of a surviving
fortress fragment

a watch tower
inbuilt by cottages and shafted habitations
that like a crazy range of quadrats
of quadrate mountains
adhered together for mutual support
conjoined

with partners stood erect reversed
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with partners stood erect reversed
upon the back - cleft of the hill
in static quadrille
around disparate levelled
wells and slots
of sunken courtyards - - -