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Famous Alewives Poems by Famous Poets

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by Wylie, Elinor
...I was always afraid of Somes's Pond: 
Not the little pond, by which the willow stands, 
Where laughing boys catch alewives in their hands 
In brown, bright shallows; but the one beyond. 
There, where the frost makes all the birches burn 
Yellow as cow-lilies, and the pale sky shines 
Like a polished shell between black spruce and pines, 
Some strange thing tracks us, turning where we turn.

You'll say I dreamed it, being the true daughter 
Of those who in old ti...Read More



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