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As the arrested artists / of the masses / whose child faces / turned upon Beauty / the puny / light / of their immobile recognition / made moon -- flowers / out of muck / and things desired / out of their tenuous soul -- stuff / Until the Ruling Bluff / demanded a hell -- full / of labour / for half a belly -- full / So did the mongrel -- girl / of Noman's land / coerce the shy / Spirit of Beauty / from excrements and physic --
While Esau of Ridover Square / absorbs the erudite idea / that Beauty is nowhere / except posthumously to itself / in the antique / And trains / the common manifestations / of creation / to flatten / before his eyes / to one vast monopattern