The best room, what they call the bridal chamber—
What they call—what do they call it?—
And I dressed up
All in these new things not a red ribbon
You ever had on before and mind you keep
The shoes you were married in and all to go
Into a closed room with a bed in it,
To lie in a shut chamber
What they call—
Something
the chalked letters
does he say
That
I wonder
or what—
She held his hand
Against her breast under the flowers. She felt
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