The Babe Hits His Final Homer
(May 25, 1935)
The quiet rain is filtering
down the sky. Neither you nor I
will see a player like him again --the power swing, the robust king
of the world of baseball. We tend
our days, plan future waysto find a hero larger than life,
but mundane joys and rooms of toys
cannot eclipse that summer strifewhen mighty Ruth, his bat his truth,
crashed one more massive home run --
and then, finally, all was done.