Waiflike? Well, that’s too simple; she was more,
And even in Roman Holiday, when young
And moist and innocent, as in fairy-lore,
She had a worldliness about her tongue

And sounded like Old Europe as she spoke,
Invoking old mythologies and tales
That might be told among the peasant folk
After the queen has gone and the light fails.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s made us remark
That innocence and experience are the same;
And in Charade and in Wait Until Dark
We saw how good usurps the devil’s name.

She worked with UNICEF to help each kid;
We loved the way she walked and what she did.