That Bright Chimeric Beast
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For Lynn Riggs) HAT bright chimeric beastConceived yet never born,Save in the poet’s breast,The white-flanked unicorn,Never may be shakenFrom his solitude;Never may be takenIn any earthly wood. That bird forever feathered,Of its new self the sire,After aeons weathered,Reincarnate by fire,
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