HERE lies the body of Lois Spears, Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Willard Fluke, Wife of Cyrus Spears, Mother of Myrtle and Virgil Spears, Children with clear eyes and sound limbs -- (I was born blind) I was the happiest of women As wife, mother and housekeeper, Caring for my loved ones, And making my home A place of order and bounteous hospitality: For I went about the rooms, And about the garden With an instinct as sure as sight, As though there were eyes in my finger tips -- Glory to God in the highest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: 13. TO MR. H. LAWES, ON HIS AIRS by JOHN MILTON PROTHALAMION by EDMUND SPENSER THE COTTAGER TO HER INFANT by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH THE BIRTHDAY CROWN by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1824-1911) FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by EDWIN ARNOLD SONNET TO W-- P-- by BERNARD BARTON |