Calm the night and stilled the sea <br />Bathed in its tranquility <br />A fleeting glimpse of death`s repose <br />Gently stirred the sleeping rose <br /> <br />(But still too blind to understand <br />I let it wither in my hand) <br /> <br />The lifeless form fell to the earth <br />There again to find new birth <br />For withered though the rose may be <br />Its seed lives on eternally<br /><br />Valerie Dohren<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-rose-147/
