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She bade me follow to her garden where	A
The mellow sunlight stood as in a cup	B
Between the old grey walls I did not dare	A
To raise my face I did not dare look up	B
Lest her bright eyes like sparrows should fly in	C
My windows of discovery and shrill 'Sin '	D
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So with a downcast mien and laughing voice	E
I followed followed the swing of her white dress	F
That rocked in a lilt along I watched the poise	G
Of her feet as they flew for a space then paused to press	F
The grass deep down with the royal burden of her	H
And gladly I'd offered my breast to the tread of her	H
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'I like to see ' she said and she crouched her down	I
She sunk into my sight like a settling bird	J
And her bosom crouched in the confines of her gown	I
Like heavy birds at rest there softly stirred	J
By her measured breaths 'I like to see ' said she	K
'The snap dragon put out his tongue at me '	-
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She laughed she reached her hand out to the flower	H
Closing its crimson throat my own throat in her power	H
Strangled my heart swelled up so full	L
As if it would burst its wineskin in my throat	M
Choke me in my own crimson I watched her pull	L
The gorge of the gaping flower till the blood did float	M
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Over my eyes and I was blind	N
Her large brown hand stretched over	H
The windows of my mind	N
And in the dark I did discover	H
Things I was out to find	N
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My grail a brown bowl twined	N
With swollen veins that met in the wrist	O
Under whose brown the amethyst	O
I longed to taste and I longed to turn	P
My heart's red measure in her cup	B
I longed to feel my hot blood burn	P
With the lambent amethyst in her cup	B
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Then suddenly she looked up	B
And I was blind in a tawny gold day	Q
Till she took her eyes away So she came down from above	R
And emptied my heart of love	R
So I helf my heart aloft	S
To the cuckoo that fluttered above	R
And she settled soft	T
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It seemed that I and the morning world	U
Were pressed cup shape to take this reiver	H
Bird who was weary to have furled	U
Her wings on us	V
As we were weary to receive her	H
	-
This bird this rich	W
Sumptuous central grain	X
This mutable witch	W
This one refrain	X
This laugh in the fight	U
This clot of light	U
This core of night	U
	-
She spoke and I closed my eyes	Y
To shut hallucinations out	U
I echoed with surprise	Y
Hearing my mere lips shout	U
The answer they did devise	Y
	-
Again I saw a brown bird hover	H
Over the flowers at my feet	U
I felt a brown bird hover	H
Over my heart and sweet	U
Its shadow lay on my heart	U
I thought I saw on the clover	H
A brown bee pulling apart	U
The closed flesh of the clover	H
And burrowing into its heart	U
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She moved her hand and again	Z
I felt the brown bird hover	H
Over my heart and then	Z
The bird came down on my heart	U
As on a nest the rover	H
Cuckoo comes and shoves over	H
The brim each careful part	U
Of love takes possession and settles down	I
With her wings and her feathers does drown	I
The nest in a heat of love	R
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She turned her flushed face to me for the glint	U
Of a moment 'See ' she laughed 'if you also	A2
Can make them yawn ' I put my hand to the dint	U
In the flower's throat and the flower gaped wide with woe	A2
She watched she went of a sudden intensely still	B2
She watched my hand and I let her watch her fill	B2
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I pressed the wretched throttled flower between	C2
My fingers till its head lay back its fangs	D2
Poised at her like a weapon my hand stood white and keen	C2
And I held the choked flower serpent in its pangs	D2
Of mordant anguish till she ceased to laugh	E2
Until her pride's flag smitten cleaved down to the staff	E2
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She hid her face she murmured between her lips	F2
The low word 'Don't ' I let the flower fall	G2
But held my hand afloat still towards the slips	F2
Of blossom she fingered and my crisp fingers all	G2
Put forth to her she did not move nor I	H2
For my hand like a snake watched hers that could not fly	H2
Then I laughed in the dark of my heart I did exult	U
Like a sudden chuckling of music I bade her eyes	Y
Meet mine I opened her helpless eyes to consult	U
Their fear their shame their joy that underlies	Y
Defeat in such a battle in the dark of her eyes	Y
My heart was fierce to make her laughter rise	Y
Till her dark deeps shook with convulsive thrills and the dark	I2
Of her spirit wavered like water thrilled with light	U
And my heart leaped up in longing to plunge its stark	I2
Fervour within the pool of her twilight	U
Within her spacious gloom in the mystery	H
Of her barbarous soul to grope with ecstasy	H
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And I do not care though the large hands of revenge	J2
Shall get my throat at last shall get it soon	K2
If the joy that they are lifted to avenge	J2
Have risen red on my night as a harvest moon	K2
Which even Death can only put out for me	H
And death I know is beter than not to be	H

David Herbert Lawrence

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