Pickthorn Manor: 15

Amy Lowell

She sighed because it seemed so long ago,
 Those days with Everard; unthinking took
The path back to the orchard.  Strolling so
 She walked, and he beside her.  In a nook
Where a stone seat withdrew beneath low boughs,
 Full-blossomed, hummed with bees, they sat them down.
    She questioned him about the war, the share
 Her husband had, and grown
Eager by his clear answers, straight allows
Her hidden hopes and fears to speak, and rouse
    Her numbed love, which had slumbered unaware.

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