When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie … - Elinor Wylie

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When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well — we shall live very well.

Elinor Wylie

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Elinor Morton Wylie (7 September 1885 – 16 December 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Birth Name: Elinor Hoyt Martyn

Alternative Names: Elinor Morton Wylie

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Under oak, ash and thorn My soul was born. Under thorn, oak and ash My body bent to the lash.

Orchard of the strangest fruits Hanging from the skies; Brothers, yet insensate brutes Who fear each others’ eyes.

The rain’s cold grains are silver-gray Sharp as golden sands, A bell is clanging, people sway Hanging by their hands.

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well — we shall live very well. - Elinor Wylie

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