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SHEW ME NO MORE THE MARIGOLD by ANONYMOUS

Last Line: "WHETHER LIVING THUS, ALIVE OR DEAD, I BE"
Subject(s): FAREWELL; PARTING;

SHEW me no more the Marigold,
Whose leaves like grieved arms do fold,
My longings nothing can explain,
But soul and body rent in twain,
Did I not moan,
And sign and groan,
And talk alone,
I should believe my Soul were gone from home:
She's gone, she's gone, away she's fled,
Within thy breast to make her bed;
In me there dwells her tenant, woe,
And sighs are all the breath I blow:
Then come to me,
One touch of thee
Will make me see
Whether living thus, alive or dead, I be.



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