When I Came To You Last

When I came to stay last, my child, What a bundle of joy you were on tiny toes! How the time stopped for us before it filed! Like a bud in early blossom you smiled, The blossom one day to become full rose, I recall when I came to you, my child. When we met next, my child, I was beguiled To see the same bud blest with sharper nose, How the time stopped for us before it filed! Your fairy-like smile, ah ever so mild, Like your mother’s your age, and which still shows, I noticed when I came last, my dear child. Many an imprint that have in me piled, Ever your fond memories would disclose, How the time stopped for us before it filed! It is to my imagination wild, Whenso my soul suffers her lows, I’d come to stay as I did last, my child, How the time stopped for us before it filed! _____________________________________________________________ * Format: Villanelle _ Five stanzas of three lines each plus one of four _ Length of the line not restricted _ Each stanza ends alternately repeating the first line and the third, of the first stanza. _ In the last stanza, the last two lines are the first and the third of the first stanza. _ Repetitions in this manner enhance the mood. _____________________________________________________________ Reminiscences | 11.04.04 |