Camomile Tea
- Wettbewerb: Liebesgedichte
- Autorin: Katherine Mansfield
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						Outside the sky is light with stars;
 There’s a hollow roaring from the sea.
 And, alas! for the little almond flowers,
 The wind is shaking the almond tree.
 
 How little I thought, a year ago,
 In the horrible cottage upon the Lee
 That he and I should be sitting so
 And sipping a cup of camomile tea.
 
 Light as feathers the witches fly,
 The horn of the moon is plain to see;
 By a firefly under a jonquil flower
 A goblin toasts a bumble-bee.
 
 We might be fifty, we might be five,
 So snug, so compact, so wise are we!
 Under the kitchen-table leg
 My knee is pressing against his knee.
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						Our shutters are shut, the fire is low,
 The tap is dripping peacefully;
 The saucepan shadows on the wall
 Are black and round and plain to see.
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