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Mandragora/Obsequies

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Published in Mandragora (1917)

572365ObsequiesJohn Cowper Powys

OBSEQUIES


INCH by inch — for it takes some time, this thing —
   You have killed my love;
Till at last a look, a gesture, an anything
   Did fatal prove.
And now, ah now, how desperately you cling
   To its dead bier.
As tho' thro' your calm breast passed the same sting
   That laid it here!


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