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lt i gt Relinquunt Ommia Servare Rem Publicam lt i gt	A
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The old South Boston Aquarium stands	B
in a Sahara of snow now Its broken windows are boarded	A
The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its scales	C
The airy tanks are dry	D
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Once my nose crawled like a snail on the glass	E
my hand tingled to burst the bubbles	F
drifting from the noses of the cowed compliant fish	G
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My hand draws back I often sign still	H
for the dark downward and vegetating kingdom	I
of the fish and reptile One morning last March	J
I pressed against the new barbed and galvanized	A
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fence on the Boston Common Behind their cage	K
yellow dinosaur steamshovels were grunting	L
as they cropped up tons of mush and grass	E
to gouge their underworld garage	M
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Parking spaces luxuriate like civic	N
sandpiles in the heart of Boston	O
a girdle of orange Puritan pumpkin colored girders	P
braces the tingling Statehouse	Q
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shaking over the excavations as it faces Colonel Shaw	R
and his bell cheeked Negro infantry	S
on St Gaudens' shaking Civil War relief	T
propped by a plank splint against the garage's earthquake	U
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Two months after marching through Boston	O
half of the regiment was dead	A
at the dedication	O
William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe	V
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Their monument sticks like a fishbone	O
in the city's throat	A
Its Colonel is as lean	O
as a compass needle	W
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He has an angry wrenlike vigilance	X
a greyhound's gentle tautness	X
he seems to wince at pleasure	Y
and suffocate for privacy	X
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He is out of bounds now He rejoices in man's lovely	X
peculiar power to choose life and die	D
when he leads his black soldiers to death	Z
he cannot bend his back	A2
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On a thousand small town New England greens	X
the old white churches hold their air	B2
of sparse sincere rebellion frayed flags	X
quilt the graveyards of the Grand Army of the Republic	C2
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The stone statutes of the abstract Union Soldier	Y
grow slimmer and younger each year	D2
wasp waisted they doze over muskets	X
and muse through their sideburns	X
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Shaw's father wanted no monument	A
except the ditch	E2
where his son's body was thrown	O
and lost with his 'niggers '	-
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The ditch is nearer	Y
There are no statutes for the last war here	F2
on Boylston Street a commercial photograph	G2
shows Hiroshima boiling	L
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over a Mosler Safe the 'Rock of Ages'	X
that survived the blast Space is nearer	Y
when I crouch to my television set	A
the drained faces of Negro school children rise like balloons	X
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Colonel Shaw	R
is riding on his bubble	W
he waits	X
for the blessed break	U
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The Aquarium is gone Everywhere	B2
giant finned cars nose forward like fish	G
a savage servility	A
slides by on grease	X

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