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date: 1920-04-08

names-on-the-page: Mrs. Richards; Mrs. Filley; Mrs. Allen; Mrs. Oliver Smith; Mrs. Watts; Miss Borggraefe

transcription: April 8, 1920

Mrs. Richards,
Mrs. Filley,
Mrs. Allen,
Mrs. Oliver Smith,
Mrs. Watts,
Miss Borggraefe,
The family.

Patience began the evening by her usual singing, giving the following two
poems without comment and without any special reference to any of the
company:

-Royal Sorrow-

She is regal. Lo, her eyes
Are level, deep, kind, intimate
And her lips silent, fitful of smiling
Which tempts to break yet quivering pressed,
Strangely mute, and her hands
Are restless things, pleading, patient,
Fretful, imploring and her voice --
I have not heard her voice,
Yet it hath encompassed me,
It hath spoken in a true measure
In a cadence which beat rhythmically
Upon me, creating music within my soul,
A sweet, clanging singing half tearful,
Half joyful. She is mute, yet
Her voice hath encompassed me.
She is regal, her head tilted
In pride and her brow crowned of pearls,
Lustrous pearls. Behold her!
She reigneth my day. Sorrow.
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-The Visitation-

Upon a path agone I see
A child at a hillock's brow
In a young morning and behold! thereto,
Unto the day, cometh hosts,
Winged hosts which sing, drawing the chariots
Of song from skyward, earthward.

Lo, upon a path agone, I see
A youth at the hillock's brow
In the early morning and behold!
The woodflanks sing and there is noise
Of nesting in the thickets.

Con'd

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