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| A Christian in London & Paris by Merle Lamprecht | | Buy Now | PLACE DES VOSGES
a shot from a helicopter
would be best
it’s impossible to get one
that does justice
to the vast place des Vosges
the foreground
is cluttered with cars
studios, shops
waiters in white aprons
picnickers in the park
children scrunching
on the gravel
people taking
a quick shortcut
while in the
ancient arcades
a soprano sings arias
a quartet plays Bach
so fitting for this
evocative
French, formal
aristocratic square
unlike most Paris squares
it is a square
nine pink brick mansions
define each side
their slate roofs
encircling it
like a silver coronet
the park outlined
by avenues of linden trees
trimmed as if
a giant hand
had sliced them smooth
and in the center
proud and high above
Louis X111 surveys the scene
and so
I never got a shot
but I shall always remember
that it reminded me
of mansions
of many mansions
of one with a
place prepared by you
in your mercy
Lord
for me
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