e the "Old Guy", effigies stuffed with straw. The first and last parts of the poem indicate a church service, and the ritual service throughout. This is indicated in the passages "Leaning together...whisper together"(part I lines 3,6), and the voices "quiet and meaningless"(I 7) as the service drones on. The previous worshippers disappear in a blur of shape, shade, and gesture, to which normality is attached. They were not empty
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