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BURBANK WITH A BAEDEKER
And elbows, with the palms turned out,
- Chicago Semite Viennese.
A lustreless protrusive eye
- Stares from the protozoic slime
At a perspective of Canalotto.
- The smoky candle end of time
Declines. On the Rialto once.
- The rats are underneath the piles.
The jew is underneath the lot.
- Money in furs. The boatman smiles,
Princess Volupine extends
- A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand
To climb the waterstair. Lights, lights,
- She entertains Sir Ferdinand
Klein. Who clipped the lion's wings
- And flea'd his rump and pared his claws;
Thought Burbank, meditating on
- Time's ruins, and the seven laws.
