ANCILLA DOMINI

ANCILLA DOMINI

The end of life!*

I thought that it would be

more swift for me.

I dreamed not of the loneliness and strife,

the pain, the weariness, the misery;

but yet, God's will is best,

and in that will I rest,

Ancilla Domini.

O Mother mine,

the Face I long to see

is turned from me.

Then pray for me to Christ, thy Son divine;

so powerful his mother's prayer must be.

Win pardon for the past

and keep me till the last

Ancilla Domini.

Sister Marie Paula

Spirit. October 1937

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Ancilla Domini - Handmaid of the Lord

* Sister Marie Paula (1867 - 1940) must have been ill already when she wrote this poem in 1937.