To table, looked once round him, and began.

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That table seemed unending. Here and there

Were broken meats, bread crumbled, flowers defaced

—A napkin, with white petals, on a chair,

—A glass already tasted, still to taste.

It seemed that a great host had fed in haste

And gone: yet left a thousand places more

Untouched, wherein no guest had sat before.

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