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Collections & Critiques

Scene: The Yard.

Hudlbras:

Tell me, Ralpho, where do you go

With determined face and step so slow,

With that lengthy ladder and bucket of paint?

Why truly you look like a martyred Saint.

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Ralpho:

Sir Hudibras, disturb me not

For my mission is to erase the rot

That clings to the walls of our library.

Those murals by Sargent are quite contrary

To all the principles of noble art

And are nothing but the counterpart

Of propaganda, bill-board posters,

Advertising snappy roadsters.

Hudlbras:

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