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I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.

Elinor Wylie
Lying, Blue, Saint
Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.37, Kent State University Press
I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.