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COMING AWAKE by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE

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First Line: WHEN I WOKE, THE LAKE-LIGHTS WERE QUIVERING ON THE WALL
Last Line: OF THE IMPENDING BEE -- THEY WERE FAIR ENOUGH SIGHTS.
WHEN I woke, the lake-lights were quivering on the wall,
The sunshine swam in a shoal across and across,
And a hairy, big bee hung over the primulas
In the window, his body black fur, and the sound of him cross.

There was something I ought to remember: and yet
I did not remember. Why should I? The running lights
And the airy primulas, oblivious
Of the impending bee -- they were fair enough sights.




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