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The Bowre of Blisse
Goodly it was enclos’ed rownd about,
As well their entered guests to keep within,
As those unruly beasts to hold without;
Yet was the fence thereof but weake and thin
-Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto XII
While much of the world is bleeding and burnt
Democracy takes a summer holiday
Far away in Maryland’s gentle woods and hills
Where the screams of tortured children cannot be heard
Among the gardened and guarded streams and trees
Elderly men are guided in their play
By smiling minders gentle in their words
And ready with the proper remedies
While those who code are kept carefully near
To sweeten the words the old gentlemen hear