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PATIENCE, little Heart. | |
One day a heavy, June-hot woman | |
Will enter and shut the door to stay. | |
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And when your stifling heart would summon | |
Cool, lonely night, her roused breasts will keep the night at bay, | 5 |
Sitting in your room like two tiger-lilies | |
Flaming on after sunset, | |
Destroying the cool, lonely night with the glow of their hot twilight; | |
There in the morning, still, while the fierce strange scent comes yet | |
Stronger, hot and red; till you thirst for the daffodillies | 10 |
With an anguished, husky thirst that you cannot assuage, | |
When the daffodillies are dead, and a woman of the dog-days holds you in gage. | |
Patience, little Heart. | |
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