VII

by John Keats · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Isabella, or the Pot of Basil

So once more he had waked and anguished

      A dreary night of love and misery,

If Isabel's quick eye had not been wed

      To every symbol on his forehead high:

She saw it waxing very pale and dead,

      And straight all flush'd; so, lisped tenderly,

'Lorenzo!'—here she ceased her timid quest,

But in her tone and look he read the rest.

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