~Dead Girl~

No more with overflowing light 
Shall fill the eyes that are now faded 
No more shall quiver down the darkest days 
The flowing wonder of her ways
Whereof no language may requite
The shifting and the many shaded 
The grace, divine, definitive 
Clings only as a faint forestalling
The laugh that love could not forgive is hushed 
And answers to no calling 
The forehead and the little ears have gone 
Where Saturn keeps the years 
The breast where roses could not live 
The beauty, shattered by the laws 
That have creation in their keeping 
No longer trembles at applause 
And we who delve in beauty's lair know all
That we have known before of what inexorable cause 
Makes time so vicious in his reaping