Dance of the Macabre Mice
Wallace Stevens
1879 to 1955
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In the land of turkeys in turkey weather
At base of the statue, we go round and round.
a beautiful history, beautiful surprise!
Monsieur is on horseback. horse is covered with mice.
This dance has no name. It is a hungry dance.
We dance it out the tip of Monsieur’s sword,
Reading the lordly language the inscription,
Which is like zithers and tambourines combined:
Founder of the State. Whoever founded
A state that free, in the dead of winter, from mice?
What beautiful tableau tinted and towering,
The arm of bronze against all evil!
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