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THE DAY was here when it was his to know
How fared the barriers he had built between
His triumph and his enemies unseen, / For them to undermine and overthrow; / And it was his no longer to forego
The sight of them, insidious and serene, / Where they were delving always and had been
Left always to be vicious and to grow.
And there were the new tenants who had come, / By doors that were left open unawares,
Into his house, and were so much at home
There now that he would hardly have to guess, / By the slow guile of their vindictiveness, / What ultimate insolence would soon be theirs.