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SUNSHINE IN THE CUP by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER

First Line: SHE POURED A CUP OF TEA I STILL CAN HOLD
Last Line: AND LURE THE BIRDS TO VENTURE DOWN AND SUP!
Subject(s): FOOD & EATING; SONNET (AS LITERARY FORM); TEA;
She poured a cup of tea I still can hold
To sip refreshment. See her smiling fill
And pass the amber cup, and offer still
The salver heaped with ivory and gold
Of bread and butter, petal-thin and cold;
Then turn with me to watch a friendly hill
That calls to us across the window-sill
With beckoning live-oak branches gnarled and old.

Since then, my taste in tea is hard to please.
I ask a bit of sunshine in the cup,
A tang of sky leaf-sifted through the trees,
And then I lift the joyous potion up
To share its fragrance with the eager breeze
And lure the birds to venture down and sup!



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