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...ould show them the road where the stumps are, 
The pleasures that end in remorse, 
And the game where the Devil's three trumps are 
The woman, the card, and the horse. 
Shall the blind lead the blind -- shall the sower 
Of wind read the storm as of yore? 
Though they get to their goal somewhat slower, 
They march where we hurried before. 

For the world never learns -- just as we did 
They gallantly go to their fate, 
Unheeded all warnings, unheeded 
The maxims of elders seda...Read more of this...

...were dead -- it is easy he thought to die -- 
These dead remained, but the living were all gone, 
Gone with the wailing trumps of victory. 

The dead men wore no raiment against the air, 
Bartholomew's men had spoiled them where they fell; 
In defeat the heroes' bodies were whitely bare, 
The field was white like meads of asphodel. 

Not all were white; some gory and fabulous 
Whom the sword had pierced and then the grey wolf eaten; 
But the brother reasoned that heroes' fles...Read more of this...

...ss, but all the same I'm heartily glad I'm not
The man who gave him his broken head, the sniper who fired the shot.

No trumps you make it, I think you said? You'll pardon me if I err;
For a moment I thought of other things . . .Mon Dieu! Quelle vache de gueerre....Read more of this...

...ep the future gives the lie

to rushing dreams and blood’s inflated wants
it’s the crawling turn of life that plays the trumps
the snail’s the joke - the spiral wraps the taunts
(the linear hurls) back round itself – and dumps

vainglory pride ambition overweened
into the snail’s path as fodder to be gnashed
(transmutable to slime) and once more greened
(in time’s course) for hope to be re-stashed

as cosmos and the throbbing crumb of dirt
share each other’s suits and blindly...Read more of this...

...rry night.

And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels' trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet,
Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
No other end of the world th...Read more of this...

...shining Train,
Draw forth to Combat on the Velvet Plain.

The skilful Nymph reviews her Force with Care;
Let Spades be Trumps, she said, and Trumps they were.

Now move to War her Sable Matadores,
In Show like Leaders of the swarthy Moors.
Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord!
Led off two captive Trumps, and swept the Board.
As many more Manillio forc'd to yield,
And march'd a Victor from the verdant Field.
Him Basto follow'd, but his Fate more hard
Gain'd but one Trump and o...Read more of this...

...ing train,
Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain.

The skilful nymph reviews her force with care:
"Let Spades be trumps!" she said, and trumps they were.

Now move to war her sable Matadores,
In show like leaders of the swarthy Moors.
Spadillio first, unconquerable lord!
Led off two captive trumps, and swept the board.
As many more Manillio forc'd to yield,
And march'd a victor from the verdant field.
Him Basto follow'd, but his fate more hard
Gain'd but one t...Read more of this...

...tender hearts
Have better learned to act their parts,
Receive the news in doleful dumps:
"The Dean is dead -and what is trumps? - 
Then Lord have mercy on his soul!
- Ladies, I'll venture for the vole. - 
Six deans, they say, must bear the pall.
- I wish I knew what king to call. - 
Madam, your husband will attend
The funeral of so good a friend?
No, madam, 'tis a shocking sight,
And he's engaged tomorrow night;
My Lady Club would take it ill
If he should fail her at quadrill...Read more of this...

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