Lawrence Hall
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                               A Rosary of Childhood Summers

                    “And summer’s lease hath all too short a date”

                                   -Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

Between infancy and adolescence
Ten summers form a crown of memories
An Eden of bare feet and ice cream bars
That inform the dreams of our after-years

Each day is its own rosary of life
Those works and books and thoughts and ordinary chores
That with their attendant offerings and prayers
Give meaning to the mysteries of life

But we tell best those holy beads of youth
Whose innocent joys began our search for Truth