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FISHERMEN AT FAIRHOPE by FRANCES R. DURHAM

First Line: PAINT ME A POEM IN DULL GOLD
Last Line: AND PEACE THERE.
Subject(s): FISH & FISHING; ANGLERS;
Paint me a poem in dull gold
Just as the sky was then --
A black boat, and in it, barelegged,
Two fishermen.

Shining and soundless the trawling
Of their lines in the quiet bay;
And the day burning dim behind its veils
Of gauze gray.

Give no moon, gibbous and bloody,
Nor sun with a brazen glare,
But that dawn, and those mist-covered figures,
And peace there.



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