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On seeing Notre Dame (before the fire)
(Written a few years ago, on a visit to Paris)

Stood upon a peice of holy isle
all around the Seine wells,
Gazing at a work of stone art
and home to some famous bells

Confesions, coronations
and royal weddings,
Public executions
and lies in speeches spreading

Flashes of history standing pondering
but the thing I was really wondering,
Is, did...