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Queen Anne

Queen Anne puts on
her meadow lace
as summer dries beneath
an august company
of courtly clouds
that flirt but will not rain.

Dusty grow her hardened
palace floors
but the cream of her finery
she keeps in perfect richness.

So few these days feel
the weight of her authority;
so few believe
in her divine right.
Yet splendid she stands,
regal and defiant
against the mobbish change
eating away her kingdom.
No matter how strong the heat,
how loud the complaints,
blood like hers, truly blue, never boils.