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Saturday, November 30, 2019

Coin of the Year / Clement Wood


Coin of the Year

November, you old alchemist,
Who would have thought
You could turn the high arrogance of golden-rod
To still plumes of silver?

~~
Clement Wood (1888-1950)
from Poetry, December 1917

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

Photo: AnRo0002, 2011. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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