Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COUNTERS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH


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First Line: To think I once saw grocery shops
Last Line: Not hemispheres to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): To Think!
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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