The Silken Undoing of Fair Things
The Silken Undoing of Fair Things
All beauty holds by Time’s unsteady lease,
Soft vows are kissed, then quietly led away;
The bloom must fade, the borrowed warmth must cease,
Still smiling as the knife is sheathed in silked delay.
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