[etni] Sonnet for Yom Hamishpaha

Save this sonnet for next year!

A VALENTINE FOR MY PARENTS

If once a year the praises that I spend

On what this world contains of fair and true

Can interrupt their outward flow, and bend

Back to their origin, then shall you two,

Well-born and of the world's nobility,

Obtain, not all your due, but some small part,

Who gave me life and give it constantly

Not only to myself, but to my art.

If I have learned to move within a form

And gracefully to wear its lightsome bond,

I learned this from the way you served the norm

Ungrudgingly, and faithfully were fond:

Through you the thought that love and law are one

Unbroken beams from the eternal sun.



Esther Cameron <eacam@xxxxxxxxxx>

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