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The world was widowed by the death of Christ	A
Vainly its suffering soul for peace has sought	B
And found it not	C
For nothing nothing nothing has sufficed	A
To bring back comfort to the stricken house	D
From whence has gone the Master and the Spouse	D
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In its long widowhood the world has striven	E
To find diversion It has turned away	F
From the vast awefull silences of Heaven	E
Which answer but with silence when we pray	F
And sought for something to assuage its grief	G
Some surcease and relief	G
From sorrow in pursuit of mortal joys	H
It drowned God's stillness in a sea of noise	H
It lost God's presence in a blur of forms	I
Till bruised and bleeding with life's brutal storms	I
Unto immutable and speechless space	J
The World lifts up its face	J
Its haggard tear drenched face	J
And cries aloud for faith's supreme reward	K
The promised Second Coming of its Lord	K
So many widows widows everywhere	L
The whole earth teems with widows	M
Guns that blare	L
Winged monsters of the air	L
And deep sea monsters leaping through the water	N
Hell bent on slaughter	N
All these plough paths for widows Maids at dawn	O
And brides at noon ere eventide pass on	P
Into the ranks of widows but to weep	Q
Just for a little space then will grief sleep	Q
In their young bosoms where sweet hope belongs	R
New love will sing once more its age old songs	R
And life bloom as a rose tree blooms again	S
After a night of rain	T
There are complacent widows clothed in cr pe	Q
Who simulate a grief that is not real	U
Through paths of seeming sorrow they escape	Q
From disappointed hopes to some ideal	U
Or from the penury of unloved wives	V
Walk forth to opulent lives	W
And there are widows who shed all their tears	X
Just at the first	Y
In one wild burst	Y
And then go lilting lightly down the years	Z
Black butterflies they flit from flower to flower	N
And live in the thin pleasures of the hour	N
Merging their tender memories of the dead	A2
In tenderer dreams of being once more wed	A2
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But there are others women who have proved	B2
That loving greatly means so being loved	C2
Women who through full beauteous years have grown	D2
Into the very body souls and heart	E2
Of their dear comrades When death tears apart	E2
Such close knit bonds as these and one alone	D2
Out to the larger freer life is called	F2
And one is left	G2
Then God in heaven must sometimes be appalled	F2
At the wild anguish of the soul bereft	G2
And unto His Son must say 'I did not know	H2
Mortals could suffer so '	-
But Christ remembering Gethsemane	H2
Will answer softly 'It was known to Me '	-
God's alchemist old Time will merge to calm	I2
That bitter anguish but there is no balm	I2
Save the sweet certitude that each long day	F
Is one step in a stair	L
That circles up to where freed spirits stay	F
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Widows so many widows everywhere	L
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The world was widowed by the death of Christ	A
And nothing nothing nothing has sufficed	A
To bring back comfort to the stricken house	D
From whence has gone the Master and the Spouse	D
Hasten dear Lord with Thy Millennium	J2
Hasten and come	J2

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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