"No water so still as the <br />dead fountains of Versailles." No swan, <br />with swart blind look askance <br />and gondoliering legs, so fine <br />as the chinz china one with fawn- <br />brown eyes and toothed gold <br />collar on to show whose bird it was. <br /> <br />Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth <br />candelabrum-tree of cockscomb- <br />tinted buttons, dahlias, <br />sea-urchins, and everlastings, <br />it perches on the branching foam <br />of polished sculptured <br />flowers--at ease and tall. The king is dead.<br /><br />Marianne Moore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-swan-so-fine/
