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    Tortoises
    Tortoises
    Tortoises
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    Tortoises

    By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1982
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      Tortoises - D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tortoises, by D. H. Lawrence

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Tortoises

      Author: D. H. Lawrence

      Release Date: August 31, 2007 [EBook #22475]

      Last Updated: December 17, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TORTOISES ***

      Produced by David Widger

      TORTOISES

      By D. H. Lawrence

      NEW YORK

      THOMAS SELTZER

      1921

      Contents

      BABY TORTOISE

           You know what it is to be born alone,

           Baby tortoise!

           The first day to heave your feet little by little

                from the shell,

           Not yet awake,

           And remain lapsed on earth,

           Not quite alive.

           A tiny, fragile, half-animate bean.

           To open your tiny beak-mouth, that looks as if

                it would never open,

           Like some iron door;

           To lift the upper hawk-beak from the lower base

           And reach your skinny little neck

           And take your first bite at some dim bit of

                herbage,

           Alone, small insect,

           Tiny bright-eye,

           Slow one.

           To take your first solitary bite

           And move on your slow, solitary hunt.

           Your bright, dark little eye,

           Your eye of a dark disturbed night,

           Under its slow lid, tiny baby tortoise,

           So indomitable.

           No one ever heard you complain.

           You draw your head forward, slowly, from your

                little wimple

           And set forward, slow-dragging, on your four-

                pinned toes,

           Rowing slowly

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