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Dunstan Thompson

Poetry

Winter 1963

Rome in the Jubilee

By Dunstan Thompson

The Goths in all the bars are drinking Bourbon and soda, Danish beer; The Dalai Lama’s legate, blinking Before the monsignori, assays His ounce or two of charm; and near […]

Poetry

Winter 1963

Walsingham

By Dunstan Thompson

The pilgrims wandering in the curio shops Gingerly touch Victorian artifacts—The wrack of wash-stands mixed with servants’ silver; But buy their brunished postcards by the steps That take them down […]