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Thy Beauty Fades - ZaunköniG - 30.07.2007
Thy Beauty Fades
Thy beauty fades, and with it too my love,
For’t was the selfsame stalk that bore its flower;
Soft fell the rain, and breaking from above
The sun looked out upon our nupial hour;
And I had thought forever by thy side
With bursting buds of hope in youth to dwell;
But one by one Time streawed thy petals wide,
And every hope’s wan look a grief can tell:
For I had thoughtless lived beneath his sway,
Who like a tyrant dealeth with us all,
Crowning each rose, though rooted on decay,
With charms that shall the spirit’s love enthrall,
And for a season turn the soul’s pure eyes
From virtue’s changeless bloom, that time and death defies.