Sunset - Dot Allison

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'