Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOSAIC, by IDA M. FOLSOM


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MOSAIC, by                    
First Line: Since dreams must die, as fragile as the lace
Last Line: That life's mosaic be my soul's reprieve.
Subject(s): Life; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


Since dreams must die, as fragile as the lace
The spider weaves to circumscribe her world
Through a brief day; since transient dewdrop purled
Within the rose must join the endless race
To meet the sea, triumphant in embrace
Again; since every accident has curled
The growing fiber of the oak, and burled
Its memory, I, too, may ask a grace:

Since all things pass, yet in their way remain,
May this frail pattern that I daily weave
Be harmonized with beauty, love and pain;
I ask no more than its design relieve
The tedious drab that makes all effort plain --
That life's mosaic be my soul's reprieve.





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