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[bodytext] => For autumngreeneyes she gazed out from the battlements grey at the end of that fateful day down below the evening grew dim the greens grew black in the forest grim all was done and could not move back they had tried and failed with every tack in this place up on mugdock’s hill the end had come, an end so ill a hundred years she had seen lost now forever what had been long ago and far away isn’t that what they always say? her hair was long and braided fair she larked on grass and cosy stair all up and down the castle grounds down to the lake and the surrounds by brown crackling moor and oak tree she so young, playful, merry, free without the dark thought in her head that with time's creep all would lie dead but let us let her play anon awhile let her dance and sing with carefree smile don't rush her advance t'would do no good to bring darkling adult to childhood there is a time for all in life for joy and innocence, grief and strife let her run while adults fret leave her to play without regret the sad time will come soon enough when all that's sunlit night does snuff we see the years as she does grow and see new pleasures that change and flow innocence slows, fades and dies like evening sunlight from the skies growing older she forgets what was assuming the future has its own laws in early years we see no backward glance to disturb her calm & changing dance all seems in tune and in its time all moving to some song sublime no darkness to fill the soul only a spark within and nameless goal so why with the years comes that doubt when what went before was simply sought? darkening fears that hold the mind slowly, slowly made her blind soon she forgot her summer place her joy in song, her delight in grace hard and tortured came the thought where ere it was easy and unsought hard realities now stood instead of charm as the world around her did her harm or was this only as it seemed to her as age crept steadily and nerves did tear why this darkness deep inside no one had gone, nor yet had died what was this foreboding unnamed and drear that stalked her hours and made her fear? the child had now to a woman grown the seed of youth so long was sown is it merely the fate of all now here instead of the laughter, to shed a tear? all for the sake of the sinking sun as age grips the soul of everyone down through time to a serious fate away from the joyful to a final gate all alone to face the one last time surrounded by men not nature or rhyme lost forever in the forest where she played as into her deathbed she is now gently laid [comments] => 2 [counter] => 150 [topic] => 40 [informant] => steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => fantasy )
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