< Mandragora
- 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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