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THE MESSAGE by KATHARINE TYNAN

First Line: TO THE HOUSE OF THE WIDOW
Last Line: GOD TOUCHES HIS OWN.
Subject(s): COMFORT; DEATH; GOD; GRIEF; WIDOWS & WIDOWERS; DEAD, THE; SORROW; SADNESS;
TO the house of the widow,
Where she wept alone,
There came a kind woman
To the cold hearthstone:
@3God touches His own,@1 she said,—
@3God touches His own.@1

Her tears fell so softly
Without sigh or moan:
@3God touches His own,@1 she said,
@3'Tis well with His own.
What is grief? What is Death?@1 she said,—
@3God touches His own.@1

In the desolate Winter day
Ere she was gone,
She turned once again to say
At the threshold stone:
@3What is life? What's the world?@1 she said,—
@3God touches His own.@1

The wind from over the bogs
Like an echo blown,
Brought back the word she had said:
@3God touches His own.
What is grief? What is Death?@1 she said,—
@3God touches His own.@1



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