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Our Lombard country girls along the coast	A
Wear daggers in their garters for they know	B
That they might hate another girl to death	C
Or meet a German lover Such a knife	D
I bought her with a hilt of horn and pearl	E
Father you cannot know of all my thoughts	F
That day in going to meet her that last day	G
For the last time she said of all the love	H
And all the hopeless hope that she might change	I
And go back with me Ah and everywhere	J
At places we both knew along the road	K
Some fresh shape of herself as once she was	L
Grew present at my side until it seemed	M
So close they gathered round me they would all	N
Be with me when I reached the spot at last	O
To plead my cause with her against herself	P
So changed O Father if you knew all this	Q
You cannot know then you would know too Father	R
And only then if God can pardon me	S
What can be told I'll tell if you will hear	T
I passed a village fair upon my road	K
And thought being empty handed I would take	U
Some little present such might prove I said	V
Either a pledge between us or God help me	S
A parting gift And there it was I bought	W
The knife I spoke of such as women wear	J
That day some three hours afterwards I found	X
For certain it must be a parting gift	Y
And standing silent now at last I looked	Z
Into her scornful face and heard the sea	S
Still trying hard to din into my ears	A2
Some speech it knew which still might change her heart	B2
If only it could make me understand	C2
One moment thus Another and her face	D2
Seemed further off than the last line of sea	S
So that I thought if now she were to speak	E2
I could not hear her Then again I knew	F2
All as we stood together on the sand	C2
At Iglio in the first thin shade o' the hills	G2
Take it I said and held it out to her	R
While the hilt glanced within my trembling hold	H2
Take it and keep it for my sake I said	V
Her neck unbent not neither did her eyes	I2
Move nor her foot left beating of the sand	C2
Only she put it by from her and laughed	J2
Father you hear my speech and not her laugh	K2
But God heard that Will God remember all	N
It was another laugh than the sweet sound	X
Which rose from her sweet childish heart that day	G
Eleven years before when first I found her	R
Alone upon the hill side and her curls	L2
Shook down in the warm grass as she looked up	M2
Out of her curls in my eyes bent to hers	N2
She might have served a painter to pourtray	R
That heavenly child which in the latter days	O2
Shall walk between the lion and the lamb	P2
I had been for nights in hiding worn and sick	Q2
And hardly fed and so her words at first	R2
Seemed fiftul like the talking of the trees	S2
And voices in the air that knew my name	T2
And I remember that I sat me down	U2
Upon the slope with her and thought the world	V2
Must be all over or had never been	W2
We seemed there so alone And soon she told me	S
Her parents both were gone away from her	R
I thought perhaps she meant that they had died	X2
But when I asked her this she looked again	Y2
Into my face and said that yestereve	K2
They kissed her long and wept and made her weep	Z2
And gave her all the bread they had with them	A3
And then had gone together up the hill	B3
Where we were sitting now and had walked on	C3
Into the great red light and so she said	V
I have come up here too and when this evening	D3
They step out of the light as they stepped in	W2
I shall be here to kiss them And she laughed	J2
Then I bethought me suddenly of the famine	E3
And how the church steps throughout all the town	U2
When last I had been there a month ago	B
Swarmed with starved folk and how the bread was weighed	F3
By Austrians armed and women that I knew	F2
For wives and mothers walked the public street	G3
Saying aloud that if their husbands feared	H3
To snatch the children's food themselves would stay	G
Till they had earned it there So then this child	I3
Was piteous to me for all told me then	Y2
Her parents must have left her to God's chance	J3
To man's or to the Church's charity	S
Because of the great famine rather than	K3
To watch her growing thin between their knees	S2
With that God took my mother's voice and spoke	L3
And sights and sounds came back and things long since	M3
And all my childhood found me on the hills	G2
And so I took her with me	S
I was young	N3
Scarce man then Father but the cause which gave	K2
The wounds I die of now had brought me then	Y2
Some wounds already and I lived alone	O3
As any hiding hunted man must live	K2
It was no easy thing to keep a child	I3
In safety for herself it was not safe	K2
And doubled my own danger but I knew	F2
That God would help me	S
Yet a little while	P3
Pardon me Father if I pause I think	Q3
I have been speaking to you of some matters	N2
There was no need to speak of have I not	W
You do not know how clearly those things stood	R3
Within my mind which I have spoken of	K2
Nor how they strove for utterance Life all past	O
Is like the sky when the sun sets in it	S3
Clearest where furthest off	K2
I told you how	T3
She scorned my parting gift and laughed And yet	U3
A woman's laugh's another thing sometimes	V3
I think they laugh in Heaven I know last night	W3
I dreamed I saw into the garden of God	X3
Where women walked whose painted images	Y3
I have seen with candles round them in the church	Z3
They bent this way and that one to another	R
Playing and over the long golden hair	R
Of each there floated like a ring of fire	R
Which when she stooped stooped with her and when she rose	A4
Rose with her Then a breeze flew in among them	A3
As if a window had been opened in heaven	E3
For God to give His blessing from before	R
This world of ours should set for in my dream	B4
I thought our world was setting and the sun	E3
Flared a spent taper and beneath that gust	C4
The rings of light quivered like forest leaves	D4
Then all the blessed maidens who were there	R
Stood up together as it were a voice	E4
That called them and they threw their tresses back	F4
And smote their palms and all laughed up at once	G4
For the strong heavenly joy they had in them	A3
To hear God bless the world Wherewith I woke	L3
And looking round I saw as usual	H4
That she was standing there with her long locks	I4
Pressed to her side and her laugh ended theirs	J4
For always when I see her now she laughs	K4
And yet her childish laughter haunts me too	F2
The life of this dead terror as in days	O2
When she a child dwelt with me I must tell	L4
Something of those days yet before the end	M4
I brought her from the city one such day	G
When she was still a merry loving child	I3
The earliest gift I mind my giving her	R
A little image of a flying Love	K2
Made of our coloured glass ware in his hands	N4
A dart of gilded metal and a torch	O4
And him she kissed and me and fain would know	B
Why were his poor eyes blindfold why the wings	P4
And why the arrow What I knew I told	H2
Of Venus and of Cupid strange old tales	Q4
And when she heard that he could rule the loves	R4
Of men and women still she shook her head	V
And wondered and Nay nay she murmured still	B3
So strong and he a younger child than I	S4
And then she'd have me fix him on the wall	N
Fronting her little bed and then again	Y2
She needs must fix him there herself because	T4
I gave him to her and she loved him so	B
And he should make her love me better yet	U3
If women loved the more the more they grew	F2
But the fit place upon the wall was high	S4
For her and so I held her in my arms	U4
And each time that the heavy pruning hook	V4
I gave her for a hammer slipped away	G
As it would often still she laughed and laughed	J2
And kissed and kissed me But amid her mirth	W4
Just as she hung the image on the nail	X4
It slipped and all its fragments strewed the ground	X
And as it fell she screamed for in her hand	C2
The dart had entered deeply and drawn blood	Y4
And so her laughter turned to tears and Oh	B
I said the while I bandaged the small hand	C2
That I should be the first to make you bleed	Z4
Who love and love and love you kissing still	B3
The fingers till I got her safe to bed	V
And still she sobbed not	W

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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