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First Line: Or in caprice or through neglect
Last Line: You'll find it nowhere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Herbs; Dead, The


OR in caprice or through neglect
Gone is the Greengage, rusty-speck'd,
Gone the Red Sage that once bedecked
Our garden alleys.
But most I miss the Musk, of yore
That scented every cottage door
And pathway of the labouring poor,
—But sweetliest Sally's.

Hers was a life together lent
With it and its belonging scent—
God knows which way or why they went—
But you may go where
You will, and search the countryside
Where wavering clouds and waters glide:
It died, the year that Sally died—
You'll find it nowhere.





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