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COUNTERS by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH

First Line: TO THINK I ONCE SAW GROCERY SHOPS
Last Line: NOT HEMISPHERES TO ME.
Subject(s): GROCERS;
To think I once saw grocery shops
With but a casual eye
And fingered figs and apricots
An one who came to buy.

To think I never dreamed of how
Bananas sway in rain
And often looked at oranges
Yet never thought of Spain.

And in those wasted days I saw
No sails above the tea,
For grocery shops were grocery shops --
Not hemispheres to me.



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