Weird Tales/Volume 29/Issue 2/The Beggar

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Weird Tales (vol. 29, no. 2) (1937)
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TheBeggar

By Frances Elliott

All day the beggar on a sun-drenched stone
Barters his jests for paltriness of coins;
At dusk he winds a sash about his loins
And mounts his poppied throne of dreams, alone.
He jousts with tigers under magic skies,
And knows the joy that fantasy purloins,
A glinting mask of star-dust on his eyes.

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