Dance of the Macabre Mice
Wallace Stevens
1879 to 1955
Track 1
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What a beautiful tableau tinted and towering,
The Founder of the State. Whoever founded
In the land of turkeys in turkey weather
What a beautiful history, beautiful surprise!
A state that was free, in the dead of winter, from mice?
Reading the lordly language of the inscription,
Which is like zithers and tambourines combined:
Monsieur is on horseback. The horse is covered with mice.
The arm of bronze outstretched against all evil!
At the base of the statue, we go round and round.
This dance has no name. It is a hungry dance.
We dance it out to the tip of Monsieur's sword,
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