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I	A
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Into the shadow white chamber silts the white	B
Flux of another dawn The wind that all night	B
Long has waited restless suddenly wafts	C
A whirl like snow from the plum trees and the pear	D
Till petals heaped between the window shafts	C
In a drift die there	D
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A nurse in white at the dawning flower foamed pane	E
Draws down the blinds whose shadows scarcely stain	E
The white rugs on the floor nor the silent bed	F
That rides the room like a frozen berg its crest	G
Finally ridged with the austere line of the dead	F
Stretched out at rest	G
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Less than a year the fourfold feet had pressed	G
The peaceful floor when fell the sword on their rest	G
Yet soon too soon she had him home again	H
With wounds between them and suffering like a guest	G
That will not go Now suddenly going the pain	E
Leaves an empty breast	G
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II	A
	-
A tall woman with her long white gown aflow	I
As she strode her limbs amongst it once more	J
She hastened towards the room Did she know	K
As she listened in silence outside the silent door	J
Entering she saw him in outline raised on a pyre	L
Awaiting the fire	L
	-
Upraised on the bed with feet erect as a bow	M
Like the prow of a boat his head laid back like the stern	N
Of a ship that stands in a shadowy sea of snow	K
With frozen rigging she saw him she drooped like a fern	N
Refolding she slipped to the floor as a ghost white peony slips	C
When the thread clips	C
	-
Soft she lay as a shed flower fallen nor heard	O
The ominous entry nor saw the other love	P
The dark the grave eyed mistress who thus dared	Q
At such an hour to lay her claim above	P
A stricken wife so sunk in oblivion bowed	R
With misery no more proud	R
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III	A
	-
The stranger's hair was shorn like a lad's dark poll	I
And pale her ivory face her eyes would fail	I
In silence when she looked for all the whole	I
Darkness of failure was in them without avail	I
Dark in indomitable failure she who had lost	S
Now claimed the host	T
	-
She softly passed the sorrowful flower shed	F
In blonde and white on the floor nor even turned	U
Her head aside but straight towards the bed	F
Moved with slow feet and her eyes' flame steadily burned	U
She looked at him as he lay with banded cheek	V
And she started to speak	V
	-
Softly I knew it would come to this she said	F
I knew that some day soon I should find you thus	C
So I did not fight you You went your way instead	F
Of coming mine and of the two of us	C
I died the first I in the after life	W
Am now your wife	W
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IV	W
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'Twas I whose fingers did draw up the young	X
Plant of your body to me you looked e'er sprung	X
The secret of the moon within your eyes	C
My mouth you met before your fine red mouth	Y
Was set to song and never your song denies	C
My love till you went south	Y
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'Twas I who placed the bloom of manhood on	Z
Your youthful smoothness I fleeced where fleece was none	A2
Your fervent limbs with flickers and tendrils of new	B2
Knowledge I set your heart to its stronger beat	C2
I put my strength upon you and I threw	B2
My life at your feet	C2
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But I whom the years had reared to be your bride	D2
Who for years was sun for your shivering shade for your sweat	E2
Who for one strange year was as a bride to you you set me aside	D2
With all the old sweet things of our youth and never yet	E2
Have I ceased to grieve that I was not great enough	W
To defeat your baser stuff	W
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V	W
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But you are given back again to me	W
Who have kept intact for you your virginity	W
Who for the rest of life walk out of care	D
Indifferent here of myself since I am gone	F2
Where you are gone and you and I out there	D
Walk now as one	A2
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Your widow am I and only I I dream	G2
God bows his head and grants me this supreme	G2
Pure look of your last dead face whence now is gone	F2
The mobility the panther's gambolling	X
And all your being is given to me so none	A2
Can mock my struggling	X
	-
And now at last I kiss your perfect face	C
Perfecting now our unfinished first embrace	C
Your young hushed look that then saw God ablaze	C
In every bush is given you back and we	W
Are met at length to finish our rest of days	C
In a unity	W

D. H. Lawrence

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