Passing by <br />At red of sunset <br />I <br />Asked the bending flower: <br />‘Why flower of such beauty, <br />Such beauty bends and fades <br />When in the skies so other beauty be? ’ <br />To which <br />Replied the bending flower <br />At red of sunset: <br />‘Ah! we of beauty handmaidens fade <br />For other beauty to make way and change’<br /><br />Emmanuel George Cefai<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/passing-by-at-red-of-sunset/
