Rondeau #2

No one will know how brightly she smiled

That it charmed her parents and beguiled

Those who loved her near home where she thrived

How she sang and danced, so full of life

How her innocent thoughts touched the world. 

From now on, it will remain untold

What deeds they did, what insults they hurled

At her that caused an act of suicide;

   No one will know ...

We have lost a beautiful child;

A destiny was rendered unfulfilled. 

What she might have accomplished with her life

Who would have made her his precious wife

If she would have prospered and grown old

   No one will know ...