Sorrow by David Herbert Lawrence
Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?
Ah, you will understand; When I carried my mother downstairs, A few times only, at the beginning Of her soft-foot malady,
I should find, for a reprimand To my gaiety, a few long grey hairs On the breast of my coat; and one by one I let them float up the dark chimney.
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