One True Tree: Cantos XXIX-XXXII

Narrative Verse

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One True Tree: Cantos XXIX-XXXII

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XXIX

In fetters they hurried him from the pit,
His prison weeds stripped they, and made him sit
Under the bucket, and doused him with wet
So stink he might not when monarch he met,
But closed was the door when reclothed he went
(In rich royal robes which t…