Day By Day Gone

Day by day gone Flowers of time Those drifting seeds on Of blooms once in prime The bouquets that give Pleasure each day As we with them live Until its winter’s play Love songs in key Of nature’s summer long Until again they’re to be For darker colder song Like everything is going And falling to dust So is autumn glowing In all its pleasure rust Till days of winter cold That comes soon thru And blanching can’t hold The colors once true Withering times and leaves All shall be forgotten Though our longing grieves Leaves - those lie now rotten