Midsummer, Tobago

by Derek Walcott

Broad sun-stoned beaches.

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White heat.
A green river.

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A bridge,
scorched yellow palms

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from the summer-sleeping house
drowsing through August.

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Days I have held,
days I have lost,

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days that outgrow, like daughters,
my harbouring arms.