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Lilies MAG

January 2, 2013
By Sarah_Oso SILVER, Peachtree City, Georgia
Sarah_Oso SILVER, Peachtree City, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
(G. Brooks)


Lead me to where the lilies grow
When happy leaves have fallen down,
When cold and creeping frost lies low

These dreary moonbeams drip below
To nature unclothed, bared and brown,
So lead me to where the blackthorns grow

When harvest season's honeyed glow
Away the wintry wind has blown,
This cold and cleaving frost lies low,

And the elms scorn their ice-laden boughs,
And kingly oaks have lost their crowns,
So lead me to where the nightshade grows

Still, darkened skies shed deathpale snow;
Let then earth don her dismal gown
As cold and clinging frost lies low

And when morning marks this sad tableau,
My feathered hope to Heaven flown,
Lead me to where the lilies grow
While cold and creeping frost lies low


The author's comments:
my first villanelle - it may be interpreted in a few different ways

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on Jun. 20 2013 at 6:28 pm
Sarah_Oso SILVER, Peachtree City, Georgia
6 articles 0 photos 26 comments

Favorite Quote:
Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
(G. Brooks)

Thanks :) in the last stanza, "morning" should've actually been "mourning," as a play on words...not sure what happened there haha.

on Jun. 19 2013 at 11:07 pm
OurVoices PLATINUM, Merrimac, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are" - e.e. cummings

......uhm wow this is amazing