You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth gi…

T. S. Eliot
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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer. ✨ T.S. Eliot My Own Wasteland, Lisa Lee
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