Elegy Avenged

      Autumn has pruned your star from heaven
      With unforgiving shears snapped the sweet light  out---
      Who but God can count the odd stars from even?
      Or know by looking the straight man from the  lout?
5     All that moves progresses only by seeming
      As a wheel that cannot touch the earth revolves
      In a mind of fire, by circles of its dreaming.
      So you, I think, were not from or into the heavens
            sent       
10    But gave loving light to all, which darker heavens  lent.

 

From the collection "Ascent"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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