centre, We'll have the horses kneeling as they enter." All sang, and rushed. Without, the trumpets blared. Now children, carrying paper lanterns, made A glowing alley to the circus door; Then others scattered flowers to pave a floor, Along the highway leading from the town. 

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 Rust-spotted bracken green they scattered down, Blue cornflowers and withering poppies red, [Pg 71]Gold charlock, thrift, the purple hardihead, Harebells, the milfoil white, September clover, And boughs that berry red when summer's over, All autumn flowers, with yellow ears of wheat. Then with bruised, burning gums that made all sweet, Came censer-bearing pages, and then came Bearers in white with cressets full of flame, Whose red tongues made the shadows dance like devils. Then the blithe flutes that pipe men to the revels Thrilled to the marrow softly as men marched. Then, tossing leopard-skins from crests that arched, The horses of the kettle-drummers stept. Then with a glitter of 

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