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THE GARDEN OF SHADOW by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON

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First Line: LOVE HEEDS NO MORE THE SIGHING OF THE WIND
Last Line: NOR PART IN SEED-TIME NOR IN HARVESTING.

LOVE heeds no more the sighing of the wind
Against the perfect flowers: thy garden's close
Is grown a wilderness, where none shall find
One strayed, last petal of one last year's rose.

O bright, bright hair! O mouth like a ripe fruit!
Can famine be so nigh to harvesting?
Love, that was songful, with a broken lute
In grass of graveyards goeth murmuring.

Let the wind blow against the perfect flowers,
And all thy garden change and glow with spring:
Love is grown blind with no more count of hours
Nor part in seed-time nor in harvesting.



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