II

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Dead Rose

The breeze that used to blow thee

Between the hedge-row thorns, and take away

An odour up the lane to last all day,—

If breathing now,—unsweetened would forego thee.

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