Oddly prescient. Or maybe

she just knew she was going to die young as she had been sick and the doctors told her not to have children or a family or she would die. Who knows? Maybe they shouldn't have told her that and she would have lived longer. I don't know. So many questions.

Moon-Spell

Soft, silvery glow of misty

moonlight

Sifting through intrinsic

network

Of long pine needles high

above my head

Lends a mystic atmosphere

to the thoughts

Ever moving through my mind--

Thoughts that will live in

minds of men long after

I am dead.

Madge Hall

March 30, 1940

Thought to the Future

Great expanse of blue flecked with white down,

Would of thy fragile magic cloth I had a gown.

A gown of heaven-blue and floating clouds!

Such one, perhaps I'll have for my soul's shroud.

Madge Hall

April 15, 1940

My Immortality

I know that Immortality

is sure

For God has given me

A sign:

When I am dead and

over me

The good sweet smelling

earth is laid

My soul shall live

for ever

In the grass and flowers

that grow above me--

In the little growing

things above my head.

Madge Hall

May 7, 1940