If we had not gone there, away
from our real lives, gone
to drift along the Cherwell
in a haze of good sherry, recline
on elbows by the Isis
like people in ads,
we wouldn’t have seen
those spires blacken against
the sky’s vast burn and ribboning,
or leaned together
down the High in the hush
of dinnertime shadows, sleeping,
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