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A BLINDED POILU TO HIS NURSE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know you only by your tears
Last Line: I know you only by your tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hospitals; Mourning; Nurses; Soldiers; Tears; War; World War I; Bereavement; First World War


I know you only by your tears ...
I felt them falling on my face.
I had wakened on a hush of dark,
And lay I knew not in what place.

O lady, not a dream was mine!
Despair had told the truth to me,
And I was fearful of life's call,
And bitter with my destiny.

But the warm touches of your soul
Guided me to the darkened years.
Sweet reconciler of my days,
I know you only by your tears.





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