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SHROPSHIRE by DONALD DAVIE

First Line: THIS HAS TO BE FOR MY SCHOOL-CHUM BILLY GREAVES
Last Line: IN WHAT FLY-HAUNTED STREAM IT WAS, WE STOOD %IN THE WEAK LIGHT, PYJAMA-ED, SWIPING AT BATS

Poem Sources:

COLLECTED POEMS.
  DAVIE, DONALD
  (1991)
 



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