MY SISTER'S KEEPER.
M) life flowed lik** a tranquil stream ; Around my thoughts 1 reared a wall ; Karth’s woe* slipped bv me as a dream, Ami moved me not .it all. Hut that was yesterday. To-day I hear strange voices in the air ; They follow nv**, and seem to say Hard things 1 cannot bear, I hear strange voices in the air! My house of cards about ine falls! I stand amazed ; now here, now the re, Sound low insistent c alls. And the dusk ,mcl through the day 1 meet a rmrnd burning exes, That challenge me to conn* away From mx dear paia is<*. And all around, from m ir, from far, Dark tales of terror come to me; They pric k me wide awake, thrv mar My life’s serenity. Am 1 mx sister’s keeper I ? Ve*s, that in very truth thou art ! l ift up thx face to (iod’s with* Ax, And open wide thy heart! For know, these voices xxhi«h awake Thx soul to yearnings after good, Tb**v summon flue to rise* and t.ikr Thy perfect womanhood. lsobel MacDonald
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 279, 18 September 1918, Page 10
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183MY SISTER'S KEEPER. White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 279, 18 September 1918, Page 10
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