XLIV

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

See, as they creep along the river side,

      How she doth whisper to that aged Dame,

And, after looking round the champaign wide,

      Shows her a knife.—'What feverous hectic flame

Burns in thee, child?—what good can thee betide,

      That thou shouldst smile again?'—The evening came,

And they had found Lorenzo's earthy bed;

The flint was there, the berries at his head.

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