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(have discovered this poet thanks to kizzikat, who recently posted her Sonnet to the greatpoets comm)
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I'll tell you, shall I, something I remember?
Something that still means a great deal to me.
It was long ago.

A dusty road in summer I remember,
A mountain, and an old house, and a tree
That stood, you know,

Behind the house. An old woman I remember
In a red shawl with a grey cat on her knee
Humming under a tree.

( She seemed the oldest thing I can remember, / But then perhaps I was not more than three... )