Fay Inchfawn Face Poems

• 1. Two Women
  "I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord" -- Phil. iv. 2,
  
  EUODIAS.
  
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• 2. To An Old Teapot
  Now from the dust of half-forgotten things,
  You rise to haunt me at the year's Spring- cleaning,
  And bring to memory dim imaginings
  Of mystic meaning.
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• 3. To A Rebellious Daughter
  You call authority "a grievous thing."
  With careless hands you snap the leading string,
  And, for a frolic (so it seems to you),
  Put off the old love, and put on the new.
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• 4. In Convalescence
  Not long ago, I prayed for dying grace,
  For then I thought to see Thee face to face.
  
  And now I ask (Lord, 'tis a weakling's cry)
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• 5. Within My House
  First, there's the entrance, narrow, and so small,
  The hat-stand seems to fill the tiny hall;
  That staircase, too, has such an awkward bend,
  The carpet rucks, and rises up on end!
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• 6. To A Little White Bird
  Into the world you came, and I was dumb,
  Because "God did it," so the wise ones said;
  I wonder sometimes "Did you really come?"
  And "Are you truly . . . DEAD?"
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• 7. Little Fan
  When little Fanny came to town, I felt as I could sing!
  She were the sprackest little maid, the sharpest, pertest thing.
  Her mother were as proud as punch, and as for I -- well, there!
  I never see sich gert blue eyes, I never see sich hair!
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• 8. When He Comes
  "When He comes!
  My sweetest 'When'!"
  C. ROSSETTI.
  
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• 9. The Daily Interview
  Such a sensation Sunday's preacher made.
  "Christian!" he cried, "what is your stock- in-trade?
  Alas! Too often nil. No time to pray;
  No interview with Christ from day to day,
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