My love, my love, I’d love to tell
    Was just as fair as one may be
Her lovely eyes like waves that swell
    Athwart the pearl-laden sea

Her lips were sweet and just as lush
    As red roses, fresh, one to kiss
Her voice in song is like the rush
    Of rivers those who sing with bliss

Her hair as gold as sunshine rays
    Her skin as white as driven snow
Her touch like first of summer days
    When high the golden sun does glow

She is an elf, an elfin queen
    Upon her hair, the bloom of spring
And in her eyes, her soul, a sheen
    A beauty, fresh and ripening

I see a hill of jade rise o’er the sky
Engulfed in silver, silk-like, morning haze
Like ghosts of dewy moonbeams roaming by
Kissed by the bright and golden morning rays
The sun, a spider lit with crimson flame
Climbs slowly up the yarn of the clouds, white
Setting alight each cranny and each plain
That once stood shadowy in the deep night
The air is fresh, all nature sings a hymn
A clear harmony of impinging day
The burst of sunshine fondles the world’s rim
Dispelling the deep black of night away
I sip my morning coffee as I glare
Upon the morn’s bright, topaz, springing flar

The waves dance lithe against the sullen shore
Brushing my feet with deep aquamarine
The air is sweet, the gulls among clouds soar
To take their place mid this tropical scene
The breeze is cool, the tide is calm, amid
The gold, gold sand hides lustrous ruby *****
The sun is high, between the palms it hid
Where soared and flapped snow-white the clouds like flags
    As we sit on the beach, a place of bliss
    I kneel closer and place a gentle kiss

The waves, like white horses gallop across
The soft, swishing sands, a castle of gold
Rises above the sand to many awes
Of those people who this palace behold
A lovely grandeur built by you and me
With love, a rope that twines our hearts as one
With threads of truth, of trust, of harmony
With the outlandish thread that old call fun
     And we would sip cocktails, refreshing
    As eventide came forth on her bright wing

And then we would walk cross the folding white
Of the pure, stainless, foam-washed, serene coast
Bespattered with the paints of evening, bright
Before the night shall come just like a ghost
And then when the moonbeams kiss the sea, deep
We’d go back to our hotel room where we
When all things are now quick and sound asleep
Will look up at stars from the balcony
    And we’d kiss there beneath the silver moon
    A sweet, last ending to our honeymoon

Thy beauty can rival Venus’s own
Thou art as beauteous as morning rays
Thy blue eyes deep and bright as stars, alone
Caught in the fathomless ocean of space
Thy skin as soft and white as ivory
Thy lip as tender as the moonbeams, bright
Which kiss the mellow, gently flowing sea
A cobalt shade in the star-laden night
As bright art thou as the bright, blazing dawn
And as mellow and fair as Spring blossom
Thine hair, streams of molten gold fall upon
Like gold cascades, thy soft, gentle *****
    There’s no beauty as fair as thou now art
    Gorgeous in mind, in soul, in look, at heart

A silver crown of jewels, bright, does lift
Amid the stars, like dew gleaming in morn
The somnolent breeze silently does drift
Caressing flowers that the fields adorn
All is asleep, kissing the mellow sea
The white moonbeams, that like lithe serpents glide
Cross the blue, I sit with you on the lea
Looking up at the stars that spatter night
The gentle moon keeps rising, smiling kind
A father watching the world before dawn
The hours perfect to leave woes behind
And to relax with love betwixt us, lone
    The trees stand tall, behind them the balloon
    Of silver blossoming, tis the calm moon

She stands by me, she stands by all of us
Shielding with bright the flame of purest truth
Like Thetis gainst the banes, she’s beauteous
Allowing me to grow within my youth
A roaming free through her prairies untamed
Hued with vibrant roses as her stripes red
With lakes most deep and mountains, high most famed
And stars that watch over us when dawn’s dead
America, the guard of all the rest
Brother to the young, mother to her son
An eagle soaring o’er the sky’s blue breast
Daring to claim the fiery, hot sun
Aglimmer with a brazen, nascent zest
    And bring it back and lay it in hard pride
    America the beauteous and bright

Across the mountains folding ‘gainst the wold
Across the lakes reflecting the deep sky
Across the cities rimmed at night in gold
Is the place where harmony shan’t e’er die
America, the place where sorrows flee
The land of the brave, those who charge to fight
Who fight for what makes America, free
Who fight for what makes America, bright
Who fight against the scourge of dawning hate
We are the folks who lead the world before
Tomorrow, we make America great
America, tis to freedom, the door
America, tis to pure hope, the gate
    America, to the future, the tide
    America, the beauteous and bright

In times of need, in times of woe and drear
We welcomed all hapless people who fell
Cringing within their dark, wholesome despair
By the black feet of dark the king of hell
This land is land that always share must we
This land is land with laws and judges, just
This land the land of opportunity
This land the land forged together with trust
America, the home of everyone
Who dare to achieve ‘yond the mortal eye
Warden of all, rebuilder of the gone
The eagle who dares to the bright stars, fly
Beyond where rims all space the light of sun
    And venture deep into galaxies, wide
    America, the beauteous and bright

A fire, they said, blazing red
    Had eaten whole a house
And there, there was a husband, dead
    Who cried over his spouse
“Twas on a cold, dead winter’s night,”
    He sang, o plaintively:
“A red, tall fire, had blazed bright
    Eating twas all to see

I heard my wife’s most pleading cry
    Drowned out by outer noise
She screamed, ‘neath metal she did lie
    “Go save, just save our boys!”
Her frightened eyes ablaze with fear
    She tried to writhe out free
But she was trapped, the fires neared
    In her captivity

And red sparks flew, she screamed, “John, John!
    Help me, help me, o please”
Through the flames, quick I did run
    From where sprang her shrill pleas
And as I dodged through searing flame
    A beast tearing apart
Something in a cold twist of pain
    Gripped all my frightened heart

Her scream as her the flames did eat
    Raw, black and savaged flesh
“O, help me John!” my tears did meet
    The flames,
“O, where are you, where are you Jane
    O, I managed to yell
But all that answered was the pain
    These crimson tides of hell

And then all fell silent except
    The crackling flame’s fury
And that shrill voice inside my head
    “Go save the boys,” her plea
I searched around the debris bare
    Aflame with savage blaze
And to my dark, my cold despair


And all I heard again, again
    Her plead, her cry, her voice
You’re their father, you’re that man
    “Go save, go save our boys!”
But then somewhere, I heard the cries
    Of the twins, tis too late
I ran, I ran, the flames did rise
    And nothing did abate

And I ran into my sons’ room
    And there I found to dread
Befallen on them blackest doom
    For they were burned, were dead
I flooded up in sad tears, white
    And with grief, fall did I
For all to this fire at night
    My memories did die

And now I stand, I sing forlorn
    O’er my family, dead
In plaintive elegies, I mourn
    I kiss each of their head
And though that fire changed my life
    Live I shall continue
In death with my twins and my wife
    In a life, anew…