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First Line: Patience, little heart
Last Line: In after years, in memory, to you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue
Subject(s): Breasts; Desire


PATIENCE, little Heart.
One day a heavy-breasted, June-hot woman
Will enter and shut the door to stay.

And when your stifling heart would summon
Cool, lonely night, her breasts will keep the night at bay,
Leaning in your room like two tiger-lilies, curving
Their pale-gold petals back with steady will,
Killing the blue dusk with harsh scent, unnerving
Your body with their nipple-thrust, until
Your thirst for coolness with a husky thirst.

And then you will remember, for the first
Time with true longing, what I was to you.
Like a wild daffodil down-dreaming,
And waiting through the blue
Chill dusk for you, and gladly gleaming
Like a little light at your feet.

Patience, little Heart! I shall be sweet
In after years, in memory, to you.







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