Albert Oxford
The Grass
Love is strong and the grass is green,
you have been mine for long
and we have seen
the changes and the fading of the hours
when even flowers I'd brought for you
changed hue,
though love was always true.
Yet it is hard to be constant
when all around is changed
and rooms and lives are rearranged.
We do not speak of faithfulness these days,
blossom that decks the boughs
too soon decays
and even things of stone
wear down to dust,
without a hint of losing trust.
Sometimes the weakest things endure
while harder structures fail,
even the brightest stars grow pale.
Many of the daily things we feel
are tough as steel
and seem to offer endless scope
but some fall sick even as the grass is green
and prove to be as frail as hope.
I have been faithful more or less,
as you might guess.
Some hidden things may come to light,
the grass grows green and does not fail;
I might speak more of this
at the mid of some cold night
as kiss leads on to kiss,
but that will be another tale
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