The Song of Miss Lily

Miss Lily has a hollow face,

            A hollow face has she.

And when I see Miss Lily's face

            It always frightens me.

I remember Lily's face

            When she was just a lass.

And is that not Miss Lily's face

            I see within the glass?

Alfred Nicol

© 1999 Alfred Nicol; originally
printed in The Formalist.  Reprinted
by permission of the author.