ALLEGORY Poem: Ever Faithful, by Nadya Steare

A blooming youth, with gown and cheeks like dawn
Who rarely spent her springtime but in yearn
By rain and sun the North sill sat upon
And waited for when fair love should return

She laughed with none the evening stars until
For talk and dance this woman never sought
They sound it off- this headstrong lack of will
That ev’n midlife her faith had faded not

By age her worry she could not conceal
In fear that time might end her with its wing
‘Fore every mass and every softened meal
She prayed He let her see another spring
Poor, elder maid! For little did she know
Her love had passed half century ago

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