Sunset

Among the birth and bud
Of each new smile
That said without a word
'I have lost once or twice'

Knowledge of decline
But only
In the sense of sunsets
Dipping full blush
Like girlish eyes
Again to rise
Again to rise

Sunsets fail and roses grow
Somewhere a legend I’ll not know

Step by palsied step
The days deliver us new bread
Kneaded by worthy hands
Aged by a billion life-times
To age a billion more

The sunsets fail and roses grow
Somewhere a legend I’ll not know

There was something
Among the birth and bud
Of each new smile
That said without a word
'I have lost once or twice’