Show WHY THEY when eve had led her lord away and cain had killed his brother the stars and flowers the poets say agreed with one another to cheat the canning tempters art and teach the race its duty by keeping on its wicked heart their eyes of light and beauty A million sleepless lids they say will be at least a warning and so the flowers watch by day the stars from eve to morning on hill and prairie field and lawn their dewy eyes upturning the flowers still watch from reddening dawn till western oklea are burgins bur alakl each hour of daylight tella A tale of shame so crashing that some turn white as sea bleached shells and some are always blushing but when the patient stars look down on all their light discovers the traitors smile tho murderers frown the lips of lying lovers they try to shut their saddening eyes and in the vain endeavor we see them twinkling in the skies and so they wink forever 0 W holmes |