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Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets

By R. E. Egerton-Warburton

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VERSAILLES.

One day at Versailles the Great Louis survey'd
And describ'd with much pomp the vast change it display'd;
“Where yon Temple now stands, overlooking the wood,
On that spot,” said the Monarch, “a windmill once stood.”
“Please your Majesty, true,” was the answer; “the mill
Is remov'd, as we see, but the wind is there still.”