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[This untitled poem first appeared in Author/Poet, No. 75, Thom Henricks Associates, July/August, 1968. It was reprinted in Merlin's Magic as "No Hymn is Sung to Praise." It was included in my first chapbook, The Lady in the Pink Hat, Candor Press, 1969.]
No hymn is sung to praise
The beauty now undone by time;
Where once the lauds and gracious
Prose were flung out, as will be
These travesties of nature's levity.
Then does all beauty fade, thus
Frail her lovely moments pass away
And crumble like the broken vase
The withered rose upon the wilted stem.
Copyright © L Milton Hankins | Year Posted 2021
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