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They knew not if they saw distinctly, for the mist that seemed to cloud their vision a mist enfolding two women like a halo the one tall, black-robed, superb in anguish, with pathetic lines of age upon her hair and brow, and in her eyes, darker than night, such frenzy of supplication as one may only offer for a dearer than self: the other young, tender, fair all compassion, divine in forgiveness and comprehension for were they not both mothers, and had she not suffered the irreparable loss that she might learn to shield grieving mother-hearts?
And to that final award his poems no less than his letters will richly contribute the haunting beauty of the "Requiem," the noble lines "To my Father," the lovely verses "In memory of F.A.S." surely immortal, so long as mother-hearts endure. Another great name was steadily finding its place during our first London years.
He heard a thousand voices call him on: Lips hot with anguish, shrieking their despair From swamps and forests and the still bayous That hide the wanderer, nor bewray his lair: From fields and marshes where the tropic sun Scorches a million laborers scourged to work; From homes that are not homes; from mother-hearts Torn from the infants lingering at their breasts; From parted lovers, and from shuddering wives; From men grown mad with whips and tyranny; From all a country groaning in its chains.
And then the apple is rubbed until it shines with a dirty bit of rag called a pocket-handkerchief, and they all sit down together in a row and share the things; and even the baby has a hard lump of apple stuffed into its mouth, for Liza and Bella do not mean to be unkind to their babies, for they have mother-hearts in them.
Gresley was not well enough to be told, and for many days Mr. Gresley and Hester and Doctor Brown held Regie forcibly back from the valley of the shadow, where, since the first cradle was rocked, the soft feet of children have cleft so sharp an entrance over the mother-hearts that vainly barred the way. Mr. Gresley's face grew as thin as Hester's as the days went by.
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