PORTRAIT OF A GRACIOUS LADY.
She drew the mantle of her love About his mental scars And lit the candles of her faith To guide his life as stars. She took the fibre of his mind And laboured to achieve A miracle from shoddy stuff, But she could not retrieve The lost and lovely tapestry That once had won her heart, For years of selffishness and lust Had worn the threads apart. Yet all the world had seen him walk In outward clarity, Nor knew his ugliness was hid Beneath her charity. —Marion Doyle, in the Stratford Magazine.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 66
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