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Tarnished Maple

In holt sat a lady fairer than most Waiting with golden crucible in hand Wanting to cast an affair for to boast She raises, and the fickle is branded Fires dance and graceful bonnets do smolder Aureate splashes into flame, sparks fly “Oh why, Oh who?” He prates while taking solder Presuming a sinful smile in dark nye The Gilded daylight aura snaps alloys The Foundry liquidates and departs That flame, the ore took, leaving only voids No longer sketched in blades split by heart “All must bid farewell,” a gasped lament As thoughts whirl and dashed things he had never meant.

© Shaded Sundial