<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460922" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For Joan Crammond</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You told me last year - in between<br>doing all you could for others<br>in your state and at your age -<br>(and that meant working dawn to dusk, at least -<br>as you had done most of your life) <br>that you were 'tidying up'<br>so that your family would have least work<br>to do themselves when you'd passed on</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, as just reward, death came to you<br>tidily, <br>neatly, smoothly, in your own tidy room</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just a few weeks ago, <br>when you had done a kindness<br>spreading word of my poetry, <br>I sent you a poem on<br>'A Reminiscence of a Great Lady'<br>and to my surprise, not just, from you, <br>a kind and tidy, just response, <br>but you were deeply stirred</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did you read in it, the great lady <br>whom we both had known and loved? <br>Was it what you'd always hoped to be? <br>Or did you recognise yourself in it - in full? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No need now to question.<br>No need, anyway; the difference<br>is not important in eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not so important as<br>a tidy, outward life. So, <br>that poem and now this<br>to you, for you</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460922" data-title="For Joan Crammond de Michael Shepherd" data-description="You told me last year - in between doing all you could for others in your state and at your age - (and that meant working dawn to dusk, at least - as you had done most of your life) that you were 'tidying up' so that your family would have least ..."></div> </div> </div>

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