its golden badge on
still-dark southern skies, outshines
    our less tranquil globe.

    Sublime heavenly
indifference to this earth's
    inhuman follies —

    old gold on mauve mists —
looming moon, silent, still clings
    to dark cliffs of space.

    One last slow fade out...
mourning, veiled in sands of time
    plunged in depths of dew

    last fading imprint
of ever-darkening gold...
    Sudden vanishment