HER mother, Elfie older grown, One evening, for adieu, Said, "You'll not mind being left alone, For God takes care of you!" In child-way her heart's eye did see The correlation's node: "Yes," she said, "God takes care o' me, An' I take care o' God." The child and woman were the same, She changed not, only grew; 'Twixt God and her no shadow came: The true is always true! As daughter, sister, promised wife, Her heart with love did brim: Now, sure, it brims as full of life, Hid fourteen years in him! 1892. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON A FAIR BEGGAR by PHILIP AYRES SEA UNICORNS AND LAND UNICORNS by MARIANNE MOORE |