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LAMENT DROLATIQUE, by                    
First Line: Death overtook her
Last Line: Than ever. ...
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The


Death overtook her
Like a stealthy storm-cloud
Pouncing upon a scintillating sunbeam
And engulfing it within a stifling darkness.

It was but yesterday
That she lay in my arms. ...
Her warm, moist lips were seeking mine,
Her soft round arms,
Like a noose of quivering satin,
Were twined about my neck,
And her dark, brooding eyes
Flooded the bleak and barren chambers of my heart
With the joyous light of love.
This thing. ...
This thing, lying so frigid and inert
Upon the bare, unswept floor,
And draped in a shroud of melancholy black,
Once lived and loved.
Now, it means no more to me
Than that insignificant little fly
That crawls so unconcernedly
Upon the cold blanched forehead.
And the mourners,
With their raucous wails and forced tears,
Are splendid buffoons in a mock tragedy.
But why—why
Are the chambers of my heart
More bleak and barren
Than ever. ...





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