A Lesson Learned
I at once with humbled gaze
Caught sight of beauty’s prize
With skilful sly and knowing craft
Medusa met my eyes
Ne’er again will sight so fair
Afflict a heart so sore
What yielded I so freely
Was tossed upon a floor
Lovely eyes of hazel brown
Cloaked the soul behind
And hid a heart like diamond
And a tortured troubled mind
What twists a spirits natural grace
With ugliness and hate
What turns the fire once beautiful
To ashes in the grate
There is a law surpassing all
Whose statutes truth impart
Though beauty lies within the eye
Love dwells within the heart
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