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UNHEEDED.

With all the words that love could hope to wake
I strove to aid my soul's divine endeavour;
But Ruth would never listen. How I ache
To speak no more again, no more for ever!
O saffron tulips in the heart-shaped bed,
Her coldness could not understand my crying;
And now I would (for joy and hope are sped)
That I, ere ye are dead, might lay a-dying!