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"Saint-Cloud."

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If the ghosts
lose, who remembers

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on Friday, 13 October,
1870, at the end

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of a forest, an ancient distance
in which Catherine de Medici is

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still winding her
way over the Alps?

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Bought by her banker in the
late 1500s, a mere village,

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who took an aster each afternoon
and scratched in the lacquer

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"here lies".

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Aloft, a sister city,
and outskirts by Atget,

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photographed 1924.

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Pale in shelter, the eyes
have their houses incised,

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and to everything, it's
lightning rod and watershed.

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It's parapet in rank advance.

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The King was invited to
dine, and the King died.

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Which wandered
from duchy to holy,

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which worship, which
body is skidding

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transparent through timing,
grew a center much greater--

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and the 15 fountains
of Sanctus Clodoaldus,

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whose miracles still walk
abroad, are now walking.

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Oh, history of
shudders, a series

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of sightings in daylight.

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It was Henri III who shocked
in a mirror ran into a man

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on the end of a knife.

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And it was here that
the Comte de Sancerre

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began his long travels backward,
because a saint somewhere left

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a roller skate on the stairs.

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Here, where Napoleon
Bonaparte staged his coup

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d'etat, in an orangerie
that Napoleon III

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destroyed some 50 years later.

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To gain a view of several
miles, and in between,

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all these kings who searched
their pockets and look up

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asking, why am I dying.

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"Meudon."

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There's nothing left.

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He barely had time
to admire, they say.

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Recent restorations have
shown vandals and war

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backing up toward the door.

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And the drive a half a mile
long along the city's gallop in,

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there's a city at the door
where there used to be a war.

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For here, history
can be refused.

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Le Nôtre did, for instance,
say, the pavilions will never be

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finished, and of my stations,
and stepped off the train.

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