HER PICTURE
Love
off-guard and love’s guarded sword
here
by the flash are caught,
her
deep eyes arched with an ageless will,
her
soft hair crowned with thought ...
Here
is the pattern for life unspoiled,
certain
and sweetly strong,
gentler
for every agony,
gayer
for every song.
Hearts
that are schooled in the splendour
shadowed
in such a face have no defence ... she has handed us
quietly
over to grace.
Sister M Ignatius
America. 23 December 1944
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