Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue…

D. H. Lawrence
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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark. ✨ David Herbert Lawrence, Bavarian Gentians
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