Burning Wheel

<SPAN name="VARIATIONS_ON_A_THEME_OF_LAFORGUE"></SPAN>VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF LAFORGUE.<br/> <br/> <br/> Youth as it opens out discloses<br/> The sinister metempsychosis<br/> Of lilies dead and turned to roses<br/> Red as an angry dawn.<br/> But lilies, remember, are grave-side flowers,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">While slow bright rose-leaves sail</span><br/> Adrift on the music of happiest hours;<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And those lilies, cold and pale,</span><br/> Hide fiery roses beneath the lawn<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the young bride's parting veil.</span><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />