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Thursday, August 21, 2025

An Exercise in Alliteration Cut Short by the August Heat - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

An Exercise in Alliteration Cut Short by the August Heat

 

Even summer seems weary with summer:

Withering weeds wish woefully for winter

High heat hangs heavily upon the heath

While garden groundlings gasp across the grass