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THE PLAYMATES by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE WYE AND THE SEVERN ARE OFFSPRING
Last Line: ON DARK PLINLIMMON'S SIDE.
Subject(s): SEVERN (RIVER), ENGLAND; WYE (RIVER), GREAT BRITAIN;
THE Wye and the Severn are offspring
Of dark Plinlimmon's side;
And there they were nursed as playmates,
And then -- they were sundered wide.

In ways far parted they travel,
By city and castled shore;
And at last, after great adventures,
They meet -- very old -- once more.

They have long grown rich in homage;
They are full of renown and pride;
But they babble of how they were playmates
On dark Plinlimmon's side.



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