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He lay and those who watched him were amazed	A
To see unheralded beneath the lids	B
Twin tears new gathered at the price of pain	C
Start and at once run crookedly athwart	D
Cheeks channelled long by pain never by tears	E
So desolate too the sigh next uttered	F
They had wept also but his great lips moved	G
And bending down one heard 'A sprig of lime	H
Bring me a sprig of lime ' Whereat she stole	I
With dumb signs forth to pluck the thing he craved	J
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So lay he till a lime twig had been snapped	K
From some still branch that swept the outer grass	L
Far from the silver pillar of the bole	I
Which mounting past the house's crusted roof	M
Split into massy limbs crossed boughs a maze	N
Of close compacted intercontorted staffs	O
Bowered in foliage wherethrough the sun	P
Shot sudden showers of light or crystal spars	O
Or wavered in a green and vitreous flood	Q
And all the while in faint and fainter tones	O
Scarce audible on deepened evening's hush	R
He framed his curious and last request	S
For 'lime a sprig of lime ' Her trembling hand	T
Closed his loose fingers on the awkward stem	U
Covered above with gentle heart shaped leaves	O
And under dangling pale as honey wax	O
Square clusters of sweet scented starry flowers	O
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She laid his bent arm back upon his breast	S
Then watched above white knuckles clenched in prayer	V
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He never moved Only at last his eyes	O
Opened then brightened in such avid gaze	O
She feared the coma mastered him again	W
But no strange sobs rose chuckling in his throat	X
A stranger ecstasy suffused the flesh	Y
Of that just mask so sun dried gouged and old	Z
Which few too few had loved too many feared	A2
'Father ' she cried 'Father '	-
He did not hear	B2
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She knelt and kneeling drank the scent of limes	O
Blown round the slow blind by a vesperal gust	C2
Till the room swam So the lime incense blew	D2
Into her life as once it had in his	O
Though how and when and with what ageless charge	E2
Of sorrow and deep joy how could she know	F2
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Sweet lime that often at the height of noon	G2
Diffusing dizzy fragrance from your boughs	O
Tasselled with blossoms more innumerable	H2
Than the black bees the uproar of whose toil	I2
Filled your green vaults winning such metheglyn	G2
As clouds their sappy cells distil as once	O
Ye used your sunniest emanations	O
Toward the window where a woman kneels	O
She who within that room in childish hours	O
Lay through the lasting murmur of blanch'd noon	G2
Behind the sultry blind now full now flat	J2
Drinking anew of every odorous breath	K2
Supremely happy in her ignorance	O
Of Time that hastens hourly and of Death	K2
Who need not haste Scatter your fumes O lime	H
Loose from each hispid star of citron bloom	L2
Tangled beneath the labyrinthine boughs	O
Cloud on such stinging cloud of exhalations	O
As reek of youth fierce life and summer's prime	H
Though hardly now shall he in that dusk room	L2
Savour your sweetness since the very sprig	M2
Profuse of blossom and of essences	O
He smells not who in a paltering hand	T
Clasps it laid close his peaked and gleaming face	O
Propped in the pillow Breathe silent lofty lime	H
Your curfew secrets out in fervid scent	N2
To the attendant shadows Tinge the air	V
Of the midsummer night that now begins	O
At an owl's oaring flight from dusk to dusk	M2
And downward caper of the giddy bat	J2
Hawking against the lustre of bare skies	O
With something of th' unfathomable bliss	O
He who lies dying there knew once of old	Z
In the serene trance of a summer night	O2
When with th' abundance of his young bride's hair	V
Loosed on his breast he lay and dared not sleep	P2
Listening for the scarce motion of your boughs	O
Which sighed with bliss as she with blissful sleep	P2
And drinking desperately each honied wave	Q2
Of perfume wafted past the ghostly blind	R2
Knew first th' implacable and bitter sense	O
Of Time that hastes and Death who need not haste	S2
Shed your last sweetness limes	O
But now no more	T2
She fruit of that night's love she heeds you not	U2
Who bent compassionate to the dim floor	T2
Takes up the sprig of lime and presses it	V2
In pain against the stumbling of her heart	W2
Knowing untold he cannot need it now	G2

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