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The man Flammonde from God knows where	A
With firm address and foreign air	A
With news of nations in his talk	B
And something royal in his walk	B
With glint of iron in his eyes	C
But never doubt nor yet surprise	C
Appeared and stayed and held his head	D
As one by kings accredited	E
	-
Erect with his alert repose	F
About him and about his clothes	G
He pictured all tradition hears	H
Of what we owe to fifty years	I
His cleansing heritage of taste	J
Paraded neither want nor waste	J
And what he needed for his fee	K
To live he borrowed graciously	K
	-
He never told us what he was	L
Or what mischance or other cause	L
Had banished him from better days	M
To play the Prince of Castaways	M
Meanwhile he played surpassing well	N
A part for most unplayable	N
In fine one pauses half afraid	O
To say for certain that he played	O
	-
For that one may as well forego	P
Conviction as to yes or no	P
Nor can I say just how intense	Q
Would then have been the difference	R
To several who having striven	S
In vain to get what he was given	S
Would see the stranger taken on	T
By friends not easy to be won	S
	-
Moreover many a malcontent	U
He soothed and found munificent	U
His courtesy beguiled and foiled	U
Suspicion that his years were soiled	U
His mien distinguished any crowd	U
His credit strengthened when he bowed	U
And women young and old were fond	U
Of looking at the man Flammonde	U
	-
There was a woman in our town	V
On whom the fashion was to frown	V
But while our talk renewed the tinge	W
Of a long faded scarlet fringe	W
The man Flammonde saw none of that	U
And what he saw we wondered at	U
That none of us in her distress	X
Could hide or find our littleness	X
	-
There was a boy that all agreed	U
Had shut within him the rare seed	U
Of learning We could understand	U
But none of us could lift a hand	U
The man Flammonde appraised the youth	Y
And told a few of us the truth	Y
And thereby for a little gold	U
A flowered future was unrolled	U
	-
There were two citizens who fought	U
For years and years and over nought	U
They made life awkward for their friends	X
And shortened their own dividends	X
The man Flammonde said what was wrong	Z
Should be made right nor was it long	Z
Before they were again in line	A2
And had each other in to dine	A2
	-
And these I mention are but four	B2
Of many out of many more	B2
So much for them But what of him	C2
So firm in every look and limb	C2
What small satanic sort of kink	Z
Was in his brain What broken link	Z
Withheld him from the destinies	X
That came so near to being his	X
	-
What was he when we came to sift	U
His meaning and to note the drift	U
Of incommunicable ways	X
That make us ponder while we praise	X
Why was it that his charm revealed	U
Somehow the surface of a shield	U
What was it that we never caught	U
What was he and what was he not	U
	-
How much it was of him we met	U
We cannot ever know nor yet	U
Shall all he gave us quite atone	D2
For what was his and his alone	D2
Nor need we now since he knew best	U
Nourish an ethical unrest	U
Rarely at once will nature give	E2
The power to be Flammonde and live	F2
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We cannot know how much we learn	G2
From those who never will return	G2
Until a flash of unforeseen	H2
Remembrance falls on what has been	I2
We've each a darkening hill to climb	J2
And this is why from time to time	J2
In Tilbury Town we look beyond	U
Horizons for the man Flammonde	U

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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