Five geese deploy mysteriously. <br />Onward proudly with flagstaffs, <br />Hearses with silver bugles, <br />Bushes of plum-blossoms dropping <br />For ten mystic web-feet-- <br />Each his own drum-major, <br />Each charged with the honor <br />Of the ancient goose nation, <br />Each with a nose-length surpassing <br />The nose-lengths of rival nations. <br />Somberly, slowly, unimpeachably, <br />Five geese deploy mysteriously.<br /><br />Carl Sandburg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bas-relief/
