A Grain of Mustard Seed by May Sarton

Author:May Sarton [Sarton, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480474512
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

For Rosalind

On Her Seventy-fifth Birthday

Tonight we come to praise

Her splendor, not her years,

Pure form and what it burns—

Who teaches this or learns?—

Intrinsic, beyond tears,

Splendor that has no age.

Take your new-fangled beauties off the stage!

The high poise of the throat

That dazzled every heart—

Who was not young and awed

By beauty so unflawed

It seemed not life, but art?—

Terrible as a swan

Young children, deeply moved, might look upon.

The blazing sapphire eyes—

They looked out from a queen.

Yet there was wildness near;

She glimmered like a deer

No hunter could bring down.

So warm, so wild, so proud,

She moved among us like a light-brimmed cloud.

The way her dresses flowed!

So once in Greece, so once…

Passion and its control.

She drew many a soul

To join her in the dance.

Give homage fierce as rage.

Take your new-fangled beauties off the stage!

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