Short Royalist Poems

Robert Streater a royalist
&a Sergeant Painter artist
Best known for ceiling of the Sheldonian
& clearly a Charles II appointed 'man'...

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Is a limerick milk and rice? 
It is in letter form.

Will a butterfly flutter by
as pastel petals fall?

Astronomers, the moon-starers, 
Say, “Yay! Cat’s ecstasy!” 

Do canoes that ply the oceans
show discretion in directions?

Be silent now, and listen still,
to bather’s pacing breaths.

The tall and solitary royalist reigns; 
but, will he resign?

Hear the minstrel, Mr Silent,
make a testament and statement:

“This is a play on jumbling words:
it's Anagramalia!”
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