The former Rose of Dunkeld she is fading in time <br />Four decades ago when she was in her prime <br />With shoulder length hair that was wavy and brown <br />She was the great beauty of Hamilton Town. <br /> <br />The former Rose of Dunkeld has known a far better day <br />With chestnut brown hair dye she covers her gray <br />Now in her mid sixties and in her life's Fall <br />The clock on her life ticking as it ticks on us all. <br /> <br />As a single grandmother she now lives on her own <br />And the good and the hard times of life she has known <br />In her twenty years of marriage she gave birth to a daughter and son <br />Till her husband he left her for a younger one. <br /> <br />The former Rose of Dunkeld some of her good looks retain <br />And in fancy she does visit the past again <br />The Rose of Dunkeld was her claim to renown <br />When she lived and worked in old Hamilton Town.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-former-rose-of-dunkeld/
