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Six Love Songs by Edward Powys Mathers - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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We are both silver sea-trout / And have risen to delicate flies on streams

Six Love Songs Add to anthology × Load audio player Edward Powys Mathers I We are both silver sea-trout And have risen to delicate flies on streams And got away. The young ferns balance on the wet earth Like green smoke above a coal. Let us watch the sun throw gold plates Down to us through lake water Where none fish. II The Recreation Gardens are smothered over With a bottle-coloured wood of wet trees And the gates were shut at ten. With your straight thin pipe and your face and arms Stamped black as against mauve paper You sit piping in our open window. It may be only a very large dain

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