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EXILES by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN

First Line: THE SICK CRUSADER WATCHES
Last Line: IN THE DEAD GLARE AT THE WELL.
Subject(s): FAREWELL; PARTING;

The sick crusader watches
Through the window the fall of snow;
She stands under the palm-trees watching
The slow black caravans go.

She sees him by the window watching
The vacant snow-flakes fall;
He sees her in the hot sun standing
Sorrowful, white, and tall.

She hears him through the snow telling her
All in his heart to tell —
Beneath the moveless palm-trees
In the dead glare at the well.



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