Rathflaed DuNoir: Poetry<br>
ELEGY FOR A MAN OF GREATNESS:<br>
FOR CLARENCE "BUCKY" SAPPINGTON<br>
A man of greatness died today,<br>
His own life he threw away,<br>
No more his songs do ring.<br>
To at least one soul, cheer did he bring,<br>
This man I thought a heavenly king,<br>
For now he's gone away.<br>
It is for you, to thee I say,<br>
Don't on a whim, throw life away,<br>
'Tis not for that I sing.<br>
Since thou didst ere life from thee fling,<br>
So till Heaven, we'll not meet again,<br>
A waste thou didst portray!<br>
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I LOVED THEE ERE<br>
I loved thee ere thy visage graced mine eyes.<br>
How could I not? I live not lies.<br>
Thy beauty is a thousand suns,<br>
My heart was home my mind undone.<br>
I loved thee ere the stars were brightly placed.<br>
The very form of flowing grace.<br>
I was lost 'til you I found.<br>
Thou art my sight, my scent, my sound.<br>
I loved thee ere the mountains thrust up their snowy caps.<br>
I loved thee fore the world did hap.<br>
Thy pearly smile, thy sun touched hair,<br>
Yet 'tis for thee thyself I care.<br>
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EROTION<br>
Erotion, flower of youth arrayed,<br>
I feared for you and so I prayed,<br>
The gods have never been so meet,<br>
So harmless, Cerberus lay for you to greet,<br>
In Charon's eye a tear you laid,<br>
Hades stopped and with you played,<br>
Because thy smile was undismayed,<br>
'Twas you Persephone welcomed and offered a treat,<br>
And gave you for your own a wooded glade,<br>
Elysium was never so bright they said,<br>
Daedalus told you, for thy delight, the tale of his flight<br>
from Crete,<br>
When passed you by, Fantalus found for you some fruit to eat,<br>
Because in gloomy Hades, light was what love made.<br>
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