What arguments of pain can withstand
The mere sight of a lemon-tree in the afternoon
Which represents, I've been told,
The love (towards whom, I was not informed)
Of the Virgin Mary? Why
This should be so, I do not know,
Though at times I have felt love flood
The mouth with a gill-gilding tartness,
And I remember me the hard yellow love
Buzzing between unripe virgins--
Lemons were also known to
Cancel poison ingested
From eating off ornate
Silver platters.
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