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In memory of one whose breath / Blessed all with words wise, loving, brave; / Whose life was service, and whose death / Unites our hearts around her grave.
Another blow has fallen, Lord- / Was it from thee? / Is it indeed thy fiery sword / That cuts our hearts? We know thy word; / We know by heart wherein it saith / "Whom the Lord loves he chasteneth"- / But also, in another breath, / This: "The wages of sin is death."