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MY WHITE-CAPPED NURSE, by                    
First Line: Day by day, with unconscious grace
Last Line: And I inhale the fragrance there.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Paradise


Day by day, with unconscious grace,
You come and go, my white-capped nurse;
As light your step, as bright your face
If woes or blessings I rehearse.

Strange to your kindred, far from home,
And meeting with unquickened breath
Man's final foe, you have become
Familiar with the face of Death.

When, in the spacious void of night,
He came and paused beside my bed
Once and again, and seared my sight,
You held my hand until he fled.

Now, as I leave this sacred room
And you, I breathe a farewell prayer
That Heaven may bring you fadeless bloom
And I inhale the fragrance there.





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