Collected poems, 1901-1918 (Vol. 2)/I Can't Abear

Collected poems, 1901-1918 (1920)
by Walter de la Mare
I Can't Abear
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I CAN'T ABEAR

 
I CAN'T abear a butcher,
I can't abide his meat,
The ugliest shop of all is his,
The ugliest in the street;
Bakers' are warm, cobblers' dark,
Chemists' burn watery lights;
But oh, the sawdust butcher's shop,
That ugliest of sights!

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