名人诗歌|ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (17)

BURNT are the petals of life as a rose fallen and crumbled^{2 to dust.}

Blackened the heart of the past is, ashes that must Forever be sifted^{3, more precious than sunbeams that open the budding to-morrow. once was a passion completed,-too perfect, the Gods have not broken to borrow-Blackened the heart of the past is, ashes that must Forever be sifted. O, loving to-morrow The rose of the past is, Life-Eternity's dust.}