<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527951" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Polly strips His bed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Polly strips back the sheets <br>where Master George has lain. <br>She folds the white sheets and <br>lays them on a chair. She lies </div><div style="margin:10px 0">her head on the pillow where <br>his head has been. She sniffs <br>and smells him. Closing her eyes <br>she imagines she's there beside </div><div style="margin:10px 0">him and he has her in his arms, <br>his lips against her flushed cheek. <br>She imagines they are in bed <br>together when dawn's light breaks </div><div style="margin:10px 0">through the shutters and Susie <br>the other maid enters and wide <br>eyed she mouths a huge round O. <br>She opens her eyes; the pillow </div><div style="margin:10px 0">is vacant beside her head, just <br>a small indentation where he had <br>laid his head the night before. <br>She fingers into the pocket of her </div><div style="margin:10px 0">white apron a few black hairs she's <br>discovered on the white pillowcase. <br>She strips off the pillowcases and <br>puts them with the sheets. The bed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">is now stripped of all coverings <br>and is left to air. She imagines as <br>she stands that he is still there, <br>laid out unclothed, skin all bare. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in reality she knows he has <br>gone of to war as he has before. <br>She hopes he will return alive <br>and in one piece; no missing </div><div style="margin:10px 0">limps or blind or gassed as some <br>have been she's read; but most of all<br>she dreads him laid out cold and damp <br>in some foreign field lying still and dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terry+Collett">Terry Collett</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527951" data-title="Polly strips His bed de Terry Collett" data-description="Polly strips back the sheets where Master George has lain. She folds the white sheets and lays them on a chair. She lies her head on the pillow where his head has been. She sniffs and smells him. Closing her eyes she imagines she's there b..."></div> </div> </div>

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