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Let All Men Wear the Purple

Donald P. Goodman III

Version 1.0 (1 Dec 1206)

Let all men wear the purple as the sky goes dark

and flowers wilt and die, and sun continues flight

to southern climes, and mighty Hunter through the night

pursues the Bull and Rabbit, and the geese embark

upon their constant voyage, and bare branches stark

thrust naked to the sky and shiver in their fright

of frigid winter which has stripped their coats so bright

and left them there to rot, a grim and silent mark.

Let all men wear the purple, and the dark embrace;

hold tight the desperation of the longest night:

the only glint of honor in our long disgrace,

the first and slightest glimpse of spring and youth's delight.

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