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Alfred Noyes - The war WidowAlfred Noyes - The war Widow
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I. Black-veiled, black-gowned, she rides in bus and train,   With eyes that fill too listlessly for tears. Her waxen hands clasp and unclasp again.   _Good News_, they cry. She neither sees nor hears. Good News, perhaps, may crown some far-off king.   Good News may peal the glory of the state-- Good News may cause the courts of heaven to ring.   She sees a hand waved at a garden gate. For her dull ears are tuned to other themes;   And her dim eyes can never see aright. She glides--a ghost--through all her April dreams,   To meet his eyes at dawn, his lips at night. Wraiths of a truth that others never knew; And yet--for her--the only truth that`s true. II. _Good News! Good News!_ There is no way but this.   Out of the night a star begins to rise. I know not where my soul`s deep Master is;   Nor can I hear those angels in the skies; Nor follow him, as childhood used of old,   By radiant seas, in those time-hallowed tales. Only, at times, implacable and cold,   From this blind gloom, stand out the iron nails. Yet, at this world`s heart stands the Eternal Cross,   The ultimate frame of moon and star and sun, Where Love with out-stretched arms, in utter loss,   Points East and West and makes the whole world one. _Good News! Good News!_ There is no hope, no way, No truth, no life, but leads through Christmas Day.
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