She slept still on the cold bed Her fragile frame was forever fixed The sullen smile on her frown face Crowned her earthly end An emblem of victory gained in demise
The somberness of the ominous knell Ushered in the undertaker for his task To amass his masters latest loot Fallen along the weary long way A rose bruised before its bloom
The lamentations of the little lass The groan of the grey gentleman The solemn sympathy of a stranger The clergyβs confession of her circumstances All a label of a life led in liaison
The strongly sealed sepulcher Bears the remains of her mortality The epitaph on it concise as her life A testament of her times to lingering legs On rock engraved on hearts chronicled forever
The worms that merry on corpses Shall soon party for their spoil That skin so tender shall decay From this world she carried eternal hope And though she is dead she shall live.
it is an elegy written in memory of a childhood friend who died at a tender age.