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FACADE: 5. LULLABY FOR JUMBO by EDITH SITWELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: JUMBO ASLEEP!
Last Line: SEEM STILL MOULDIER?

JUMBO asleep!
Grey leaves thick-furred
As his ears, keep
Conversations blurred.
Thicker than hide
Is the trumpeting water;
Don Pasquito's bride
And his youngest daughter
Watch the leaves
Elephantine grey:
What is it grieves
In the torrid day?
Is it the animal
World that snores
Harsh and inimical
In sleepy pores? --
And why should the spined flowers
Red as a soldier
Make Don Pasquito
Seem still mouldier?



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