Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1688/The House in the Meadow

by Louise Chandler Moulton

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THE HOUSE IN THE MEADOW.

They sat at peace in the sunshine
Till the day was almost done,
And then at its close an angel
Stole over the threshold stone.

He folded their hands together,
He touched their eyelids with balm,
And their last breath floated outward,
Like the close of a solemn psalm.

Like a bridal pair they traversed
The unseen, mystical road
That leads to the beautiful city,
Whose builder and maker is God.

Louise Chandler Moulton.