I + 

Feeling his need for such a book as this + 

I wrote the вАЬInfant AestheteвАЭ for + 

my little Esau + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

Patricia PenfoldвАЩs preface + 

Fresh + 

from the publishers + 

the вАЬauthorвАЩs + 

copyвАЭ + 

circulating at the small + 

and informal reception + 

for wiseacres and waisted-women + 

вАЬTo viewвАЭ + 

Esau and his authoress + 

in their accurate draperies + 

for Lady Bliss + 

вАЩs classical costume ball + 

The boy + 

one bare arm + 

thrust through a gossamer + 

toga + 

of Tyrian rose + 

is holding out an orb + 

вАФThere is a portrait of him in that pose + 

labelled вАЬEsau holding an orbвАЭ + 

The guests + 

spreading their gleaming + 

faces + 

forward + 

to convey + 

that they + 

remember nothing since the Garden of Eden + 

the garish innocence + 

of adult guilt + 

in the presence of children + 

One takes the little Esau on his knee + 

to listen to his watch + 

and absentmindedly + 

discourses + 

on the differential calculus + 

while an African explorer + 

explains how easily + 

he might catch lions if he wished + 

вАЬIt only needs kindness and a turn of the wristвАЭ + 

The matrons + 

shaking their bustles + 

with a slight impatience + 

that one so singled out as he + 

by British culture + 

might gain + 

competitively + 

on their own offspring + 

decide to вАЬput themselvesвАЭ + 

upon the order list + 

for вАЬInfant AesthetesвАЭ + 

The fire + 

flicks from the + 

fifteenth-century + 

andirons + 

and the ruby eyes + 

of Buddha + 

On treasures of Tibet + 

the вАЬtrouseredвАЭ draperies + 

of a wood faced Virgin from the Netherlands + 

The golden wings + 

of Florentine angels + 

and a piece of Ming + 

вАЬEverythingвАЭ as the five year old Esau + 

suavely smiles + 

to a professor of anthropology + 

вАЬto delight the heart of a childвАЭ + 

In the Penfold residence + 

on Ridover Square + 