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Waldringfield

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.