BERWICK – ON – TWEED MARKET
Cold, even in summer
Vast bastide hides the place.
Tweed widens and shallows:
Its sallows harbor salmon.
In the ancient market place
Sneaky ancient marketeers pace,
Their faces seeking trade:
Fowl, flesh, or fish
Old or fresh, for cash.
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NOTES
*Bastide means a fortified town, often with wide extensive
earth embankments surrounding the entire settlement.
*River Tweed is on the border between England and Scotland
*Berwick is a small town on the border.