Transcendental Sonnet #926:
Vigil
Within its clear glass a white candle burns
Sun up and down and always day and night
The world wakes up and goes to sleep and turns
Turns turns my candle burns burns burns its light
Will never waver to its end and then
Still the light will not go out another
Takes the flame for friend for child for mother
For sister for lover life takes the flame
To pass it to tomorrow in the name
Of one I love my all my everything
It is for her I pray today tonight
It is for her my candle always burns
Though other lights go out one will shine bright
In this dark world for Silke as it turns
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+Steven Curtis Lance
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