MADGE'S NOVEMBER 1938 POEMS

She was seventeen.

PRAYER AGAINST BEING AFRAID

Dear God--

Kind God--

Show me Thy way.

Light me a path--

Let me not stray.

Teach me Thy Power--

Let me now learn

To bear

In this hour

Fear

Undiscerned.

LONG SINCE

Long since we met--

Long since we loved--

Long since our ways did bend.

Long since I saw you,

Long since I kissed you--

Long since my Romance's end.

MY FIRST LOVE

You were my every breath--

You were my heart's each beat--

You were my every waking thought--

My first love.

And, now, no longer are you here.

No longer do you dominate my heart,

And, yet, when Summer's end does come

I think of you--

My first love.

LIGHTS

Sunlight is gold--

Moonlight is silver--

Starlight is diamonds

scattered on blue velvet.

UNNOTICED

I never knew

the sky

was

blue.

I'd never looked

'til

I saw

you.

(And now for her December 1938 poems, which blew my mind.)