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One of the ones
that Midas touched
Who failed to
touch us all
Was that confiding
Prodigal
The reeling Oriole -
So drunk he
disavows it
With badinage
divine -
So dazzling we
mistake him
For an alighting
Mine -
A Pleader -
a Dissembler -
An Epicure - a
Thief -
Betimes an
Oratorio -
An Ecstasy
in chief -
The Jesuit of
Orchards
He cheats as
he enchants
Of an entire
Attar
For his decamping
wants -
The splendor of
a Burmah
The Meteor of
Birds,
Departing like
a Pageant
Of Ballads and
of Bards -
I never thought
that Jason
sought
For any Golden
Fleece
But then I am
a rural Man
With thoughts
that make for
Peace -
But if there
were a Jason,
Tradition bear
with me
Behold his
lost Aggrandizement
Opon the
Apple Tree -
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