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SUMMER EVENING by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE SANDY CAT BY THE FARMER'S CHAIR
Last Line: GONE IS ANOTHER SUMMER'S DAY.
Subject(s): ANIMALS;

The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.
In the dewy fields the cattle lie
Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky;
Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer's day.



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