Rhador

Rhador, thy city by the many waters

Is forgotten.

The green lizard sleeps on her walls,

The wind blows over her broken beauty.

Rhador-

They had written beneath thee

"Whose cry is lifted here

Shall endure."

Rhador-Rhador-

The green lizard sleéps on the walls

Of thy broken city.

Thy temple by the many twisted waters

Is dust.

Ellen Fanson