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Today’s Poem: I Went to the Animal Fair

Today’s Poem: I Went to the Animal Fair

Even modern verses can come from the mists of tradition, as the history of this lighter Wednesday poem shows.

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Circle of Jan van Kessel the Elder, Concert of Birds, 1660–1670 (National Gallery of Art)

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