The beadle's job is not to
Appear in poems or as staffage
Adding proportion and
A bit of animation to a painting.
He does these things for me
Out of sheer good nature.
He never gossips never says
Why my father, of all men,
Should have had a beadle
Whom I inherited nor why
The gods intended for him
Unending woe, but beadles
And gods seldom agree.
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