christwards

Updated: May 3, 2025

"I don't know how he reconciled facts for your fact seems plain enough nor do I know how you can reconcile them; but what I do know is this: that man, poor in this world's goods, but rich in experience and in a natural endowment of poetic thought and musical ability, kept on making poems, kept on singing them, despite that fact to which he had given expression as he fared over the Brenner; despite the fact that a suit of cast-off clothes was all he got for his entertainment of those who would not call him 'brother. Discouraged at times for he was very human he kept on giving the best that was in him, doing the work appointed for him in this world and doing it with a whole heart Godwards and Christwards, despite his poverty, despite the broken promises of the great to reward him pecuniarily, despite the world, despite facts, Szchenetzy!

Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller - Flamsted quarries