<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341869" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The war Widow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Black-veiled, black-gowned, she rides in bus and train,<br>With eyes that fill too listlessly for tears.<br>Her waxen hands clasp and unclasp again.<br>_Good News_, they cry. She neither sees nor hears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good News, perhaps, may crown some far-off king.<br>Good News may peal the glory of the state--<br>Good News may cause the courts of heaven to ring.<br>She sees a hand waved at a garden gate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For her dull ears are tuned to other themes;<br>And her dim eyes can never see aright.<br>She glides--a ghost--through all her April dreams,<br>To meet his eyes at dawn, his lips at night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wraiths of a truth that others never knew;<br>And yet--for her--the only truth that's true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_Good News! Good News!_ There is no way but this.<br>Out of the night a star begins to rise.<br>I know not where my soul's deep Master is;<br>Nor can I hear those angels in the skies;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor follow him, as childhood used of old,<br>By radiant seas, in those time-hallowed tales.<br>Only, at times, implacable and cold,<br>From this blind gloom, stand out the iron nails.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, at this world's heart stands the Eternal Cross,<br>The ultimate frame of moon and star and sun,<br>Where Love with out-stretched arms, in utter loss,<br>Points East and West and makes the whole world one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_Good News! Good News!_ There is no hope, no way,<br>No truth, no life, but leads through Christmas Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341869" data-title="The war Widow de Alfred Noyes" data-description="I. Black-veiled, black-gowned, she rides in bus and train, With eyes that fill too listlessly for tears. Her waxen hands clasp and unclasp again. _Good News_, they cry. She neither sees nor hears. Good News, perhaps, may crown some far-off king...."></div> </div> </div>

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