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1878–1917

JULY

Edward Thomas

NAUGHT moves but clouds, and in the glassy lake Their doubles and the shadow of my boat. The boat itself stirs only when I break This drowse of heat and solitude afloat

To prove if what I see be bird or mote, Or learn if yet the shore woods be awake. Long hours since dawn grew,— spread,— and passed on high And deep below,— I have watched the cool reeds hung

Over images more cool in imaged sky: Nothing there was worth thinking of so long; All that the ring-doves say, far leaves among, Brims my mind with content thus still to lie.

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