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There was street parking on Gage in front of an orangely-lit space; inside, amid dates and family dinners, a sestet of elderly women drank tamarind margaritas and sang happy birthday.

This sestet is sharpened by Robert's characteristic division of the six lines into two separate triplets, a structure favoured by Philip Sidney in Astrophil and Stella.

The enfolded quatrain-form is itself a reference to the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet's sestet.

If "blind", as both adjective and noun, rules the octet, then "peace", also repeated three times, is the dominant noun of the sestet.

Apart from the attributive tag, the sonnet's sestet, all in the imperative case, is spoken by Liberty herself.