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Show Woman. The enrth hod been made, nnd man had been tnndo. ( nut lomehow It lucked In the bloomln', Till the Qod of the soorl to whom nges have prayed, Turned It Into a garden with woman. IIiFoulldtd her fair like a Illy of white. And with love did he perfume her being. be-ing. And If through her did come the first ehade of night. Ever slnco by her light we've been seeing. For you know that a new wick stvei no light at all, Till It'll blackoned and trimmed with the shear. Bo rtrhaps that Is why she has brightened bright-ened this ball Through all ot Its varying years) And I think It Is sweet at the close of life's day, When we part hands with all that Is human. To be led to the light at the end of the way As It ever has been by the woman, -Leigh Mitchell Hodges, In Atlantic City Sentinel. |