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O are you the boy
Who would wait on the quay
With the silver penny
And the apricot tree?

— Charles Causley Union Street (1958)

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More quotes by Charles Causley

Why does the world before him
Melt in a million suns,
Why do his yellow, yearning eyes
Burn like saffron buns?

Henry is thinking of his lute and of backgammon,
Elizabeth follows the waving song, the mystery,
Proud in her red wig and green jewelled favours;
They sit in their white lawn sleeves, as cool as history.

Union Street (1958)

Timothy Winters comes to school
With eyes as wide as a football-pool,
Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters:
A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters.

Union Street (1958)

Leisurely,
They beckon to me from the other bank.
I hear them call, 'See where the stream-path is!
Crossing is not as hard as you might think.'
I had not thought that it would be like this.

A Field of Vision (1988)

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