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Elenor Murray asked to go in training	A
And came to see me but the school was full	B
We could not take her Then she asked to stand	C
Upon a list and wait I put her off	D
She came back and she came back till at last	E
I took her application then she came	F
And pushed herself and asked when she could come	G
And start to train At last I laughed and said	H
Well come to morrow I had never seen	I
Such eagerness persistence So she came	F
She tried to make a friend of me perhaps	J
Since it was best I being in command	C
But anyway she wooed me tried to please me	K
And spite of everything I grew to love her	L
Though I distrusted her But yet again	M
I had belief in her best self though doubting	A
The girl somehow But when I learned the girl	N
Had never had religious discipline	O
Her father without faith her mother too	P
Her want of moral sense I understood	Q
She lacked stability of spirit to day	R
She would be one thing something else the next	S
Shot up in fire which failed and died away	R
And I began to see her fraternize	T
With girls who had her traits too full of life	U
To be what they should be unstable too	P
Much like herself	V
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Not long before she came	F
Into the training school six months perhaps	J
She had some tragedy I don't know what	W
Had been quite ill in body and in mind	X
When she went into training I could see	K
Her purpose to wear down herself forget	Y
In weariness of body something lived	Z
She was alert and dutiful and sunny	K
Kept all the rules was studious led the class	A2
Excelled I think in studies of the nerves	B2
The mind grown sick	C2
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As we grew better friends	D2
More intimate she talked about religion	O
And sacred subjects asked about the church	E2
I gave her books to read encouraged her	L
Asked her to make her peace with God and set	Y
Her feet in pious paths At last she said	H
She wished to be baptized confirmed I made	F2
The plans for her she was baptized confirmed	G2
Went to confessional and seemed renewed	H2
In spirit by conversion For at once	I2
Her zeal was like a flame at Pentecost	J2
She almost took the veil but missing that	K2
She followed out the discipline to the letter	L
Kept all the feast days went to mass communion	O
Did works of charity indeed I think	L2
She spent her spare hours all in all at sewing	A
There with the sisters for the poor She had	M2
When she came to me jewelry of value	P
A diamond solitaire some other things	N2
I missed them and she said she sold them gave	O2
The money to a home for friendless children	O
And I remember when she said her father	L
Had wronged misvalued her but now her love	P2
Made more abundant by the love of Christ	Q2
Had brought her to forgiveness All her mood	H2
Was of humility and sacrifice	R2
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One time I saw her at the convent sitting	A
Upon a foot stool at the gracious feet	S2
Of the Mother Superior sewing for the poor	T2
Hair parted in the middle curls combed out	U2
Then was it that I missed her jewelry	K
She looked just like a poor maid humble patient	V2
Head bent above her sewing eyes averted	W2
The room was silent with religious thought	X2
I loved her then and pitied her But now	Y2
I think she had that in her which at times	Z2
Made her a flagellant at other times	Z2
A rioter She used the church to drag	A3
Her life from something took it for a bladder	L
To float her soul when it was perilled First	B3
She did not sell her jewelry this ring	A
Too brilliant for forgetting or to pass	A2
Unnoticed when she wore it showed again	M
Upon her finger after she had come	G
Out of her training was a graduate	W
She had a faculty for getting in	C3
Where elegance and riches were She went	D3
Among the great ones when she found a way	R
And traveled with them where she learned the life	U
Of notables aristocrats It was there	E3
Or when from duty free and feasting gadding	A
The ring showed on her finger	L
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In two years	F3
She dropped the church New friends made in the school	G3
New interests work that took her energies	H3
And this religious flare had cured her up	I3
Of what was killing her when first I knew her	L
There was another thing that drew her back	J3
To flesh away from spirit She saw bodies	H3
And handled bodies as a nurse forgot	K3
The body is the spirit's temple fell	L3
To some materialism of thought And now	Y2
Avoided me was much away of course	M3
On duty here and there I tried to hold her	L
Protect and guide her wrote to her at times	Z2
To make confession take communion She	K
Ignored these letters But I heard her say	R
The body was as natural as the soul	N3
And just as natural its desires She kept	O3
Out of the wreck of faith one thing alone	P3
If she kept that She could endure to hear	Q3
God's name profaned but would not stand to hear	Q3
The Savior's spoken in irreverence	I2
She was afraid no doubt Or to be just	R3
The tender love of Christ his sacrifice	R2
Perhaps had won her wholly let it go	S3
I'll say that much for her	L
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Why am I harsh	T3
Because I saw the good in her all streaked	U3
With so much evil evil known and lived	Z
In knowledge of it clung to none the less	V3
Unstable as water how could she succeed	W3
Untruthful how could confidence be hers	X3
I sometimes think she joined the church to mask	Y3
A secret life renewed forgiven sins	Z3
After she cloaked herself with piety	K
Perhaps at least when she saw what to do	P
And how to do it using these detours	A4
Of piety to throw us off who else	B4
Had seen what doors she entered whence she came	F
She wronged the church I think made it a screen	I
To stand behind for kisses to look from	G
Inviting kisses Then as I have said	H
She took materialism from her work	C4
And so renewed her sins She drank I think	L2
And smoked and feasted but as for the rest	D4
The smoke obscured the flame but there is flame	F
Or fire at least where there is smoke	E4
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You ask	Y3
What took her to the war Why only this	F4
Adventure chance of marriage amorous conquests	G4
The girl was mad for men although I saw	H4
Her smoke obscured the flame I never saw her	L
Except with robins far too tame or lame	F
To interest her and robins prove to me	K
The hawk is somewhere waits for night to join	I4
His playmate when the robins are at rest	D4
You see the girl has madness in her flies	T
From exaltation up to ecstasy	K
Feeds on emotion never has enough	J4
Tries all things states of spirit even beliefs	K4
Passes from lust I think to celibacy	K
Feasts fasts eats starves has raptures then inflicts	L4
The whip upon her back is penitent	M4
Then proud is humble then is arrogant	V2
Looks down demurely stares you out of face	N4
But runs the world around For in point of fact	O4
She traveled much knew cities and their ways	P4
And when I used to see her at the convent	V2
So meek clothed like a sewing maid at once	I2
The pictures that she showed me of herself	V
At seaside places or on boulevards	Q4
Her beauty clothed in linen or in silk	R4
Came back to mind and I would resurrect	S4
The fragments of our talks in which I saw	H4
How she knew foods and drinks and restaurants	T4
And fashionable shops This girl could fool the elect	S4
She fooled me for a time I found her out	U2
Did she aspire Perhaps if you believe	U4
It's aspiration to seek out the rich	V4
And ape them Not for me Of course she went	D3
To get adventure in the war perhaps	J
She got too much But as to waste of life	U
She might have been a quiet noble woman	O
Keeping her place in life not trying to rise	T
Out of her class too useless in her class	A2
Making herself all worthy serviceable	W4
You'll find 'twas pride that slew her Very like	X4
She found a rich man tried to hold him lost	J2
Her honor and her life in consequence	I2
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When Merival showed this letter to the jury	K
Marion the juryman spoke up	I3
You know that type of woman saintly hag	A3
I wouldn't take her word about a thing	A
By way of inference or analysis	Y4
They had some trouble she and Elenor	K
You may be sure And Merival replied	Z4
Take it for what it's worth I leave you now	Y2
To see the man who owns the Daily Times	Z2
He's turned upon our inquest did you see	K
The jab he gives me I can jab as well	L3
So Merival went out and took with him
A riffle in the waters of circumstance
Set up by Elenor Murray's death to one	O
Remote secure in greatness to the man
Who ran the Times	Z2