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R E M E M B E R I N G I N OSLO T H E O L D P I C T U R E O F T H E M A G N A C A R T A The girl in a house dress, pushing open the window, Is also the fat king sitting under the oak tree, And the garbage men, thumpingtheir cans, are Crows stillcawing, And the nobles are offering the sheet to the king. One thingis also another thing, and the doomed galleons, Hung with trinkets, hove by the coast, and in the blossoms Of trees are still sailing on their long voyage from Spain; I too am still shocking grain, as I did as a boy, dog tired, And my great-grandfather steps on his ship. 30 ...

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