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THREE WOMEN: G -- by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR

First Line: SISTER IS SHE TO WOODLANDS DEEP
Last Line: UNCONSCIOUS WHAT A PLACE SHE FILLS.
Subject(s): WOMEN;
SISTER is she to woodlands deep
And quiet-bosomed noonday skies;
To calm, encircling leagues of sea
Unfathomed in serenity.
Not over-quick to laugh or weep
Are the clear candours of her eyes.
The still, unboasting strength is hers
That stays the immemorial hills.
Comfort and cheer her presence lays
Like footprints all along her ways;
The simplest of Love's ministers,
Unconscious what a place she fills.



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