MOTHER OF FAIR LOVE
Close as the dove's wing to her breast of peace
she folds her Child - and every other child at last
safe in the kind blue shadow of her veil
will lie content, all fright and anguish past.
And wise old men shall turn their eyes in awe
to that pure brown and almond-curve of cheek
bent motherly to teach them all the lore
of patient love they had not wit to seek.
Sister M Jeremy
Sign. 1940
From 'A Silence full of bells'
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