Beauty's crown lay easy on your head, You spoke but little in those failing days Of the cruel and endless hours of your pain, But when you spoke your eyes grew bright with love. O beauty breaking though the form-bound shell, O light that burned so brilliantly within, O radiant soul, angelic among the flowers Whose silent heart was like a flaming rose, You knew that life moves towards one destiny, A march to the light that ever stronger grows Implanted in this dull resistant clay. You held this time-worn face in spotless hands And felt the flame that burned so strong in me, I know that all your being understood That the dark angel waited patiently. "You are my friend and my salvation", Were among your final words to me. I chanted through the eternity of night Until morn came and softly you retired To the heavens of the blessed, your native home, My heart's companion and my soul's delight.
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