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We and he shingle still shore on a
River-wet dry hot Suffolk week’s-end day Trod foot by foot to slow time past
The row-boats he rowed last when Photo rich with plum plump aunt’s tarts
To a pub with a vicar’s son to set straight How the now past and the now not-past Would press fast the old man’s
Last pint ever with a prayer.