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Perugino's World
Perugino's world had a great deal of blue
In graceful dresses of flowing fold,
In the hills and the fields and the broad skies too
With their clear horizons of ivory gold,
A great deal of blue and a great deal of green,
And the way of his whole world was nobly serene.
Yet in those horizons of ivory gold,
Injustices, murders manifold,
Cruel sins in the Roman wold,
Caesar Borgia's basest crimes
Racked men's lives in the varied times
Pietro Perugino knew
With their pale horizons and beautiful blue.
And doubtless his world was nobly serene,
And racketing, murderous, mean and bad,
With ugly regions down roads obscene,
And much the ways it has always had,-
All swept with clear-aired mystery,
Men's ways, the skies, earth, everything -
And far in the distance a single tree
Stood, delicate-leaved in the early spring.
Edith Franklin W yatt