The Last Time
Topics: classic
The kiss had been given and taken, And gathered to many past: It never could reawaken; But you heard none say: "It's the last!" The clock showed the hour and the minute, But you did not turn and look: You read no finis in it, As at closing of a book. But you read it all too rightly When, at a time anon, A figure lay stretched out whitely, And you stood looking thereon.
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"The kiss had been given and taken,..."
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