A Rose That Died Poem by Khalil Mutran

A Rose That Died



O questing birds, what seek you in your wanderings?
They made answere:
We are the hopes of youth; and here our beloved
lived and suffered.
She was the rose in our garden, reigning
justly with the submission of all therein.
Yet all too soon we saw her fall from her throne,
then disappear.
And so you see us ever searching for some trace of her,
Or flocking where once she was wont to be .

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Khalil Mutran

Khalil Mutran

Baalbek / Lebanon
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