Immortal Words
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["Immortal Words" was written sometime around 1965. I included it in my first chapbook, The Lady in the Pink Hat, Candor Press, 1969.]
Emblazoned on an unseen yellowed page
In ornate script now hazed by swollen time
The word of poet, master of the senses keen
Tracing fear of death in halting rhyme;
A fearful pen that leavened gracious prose
And grander scenes, and labored in despair
The lumbering, futile spirit to repair.
Immortal words outlast the passioned fear.
Could he not understand the final vote,
Could he not feel that after life had fled
Great men would scan the envisioned words he wrote?
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