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1 Musee des Beaux Arts By W. H. Auden

2 The Census or the Numbering at Bethlehem by Pieter Brueghel
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On the pond at the edge of the wood

3 The Massacre of the Innocents By Pieter Brueghel
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree

4 The Fall of Icarus By Pieter Brueghel …for instance; how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster


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