Two Similes

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Title:     Two Similes
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

You have taken away my cloak,
My cloak of weariness;
Take my coat also,
My many-coloured coat of life....

On this great nursery floor
I had three toys,
A bright and varnished vow,
A Speckled Monster, best of boys,
True friend to me, and more
Beloved and a thing of cost,
My doll painted like life; and now
One is broken and two are lost.

From the Arabic of John Duncan.

[The end]
Edward Powys Mathers's poem: Two Similes

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