To a Writer on His Birthday  27076

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    August for the people and their favourite islands.
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Not included in W. H. Auden: Collected Poems.

Locations in Harold's Library

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            [0] => August for the people and their favourite islands. / Daily the steamers sidle up to meet / The effusive welcome of the pier, and soon / The luxuriant life of the steep stone valleys / The sallow oval faces of the city / Begot in passion or good-natured habit / Are caught by waiting coaches, or lade bare / Beside the undescriminating sea.|c
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