Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume I/To One in Hospital Pent

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TO ONE IN HOSPITAL PENT

LITTLE sister, everywhere There is sorrow: here—where men Greet the day-beam often when They the lagging moments measure By the suffering they bear—   Just as there! Earth-born children all are due At one goal, and none is free: Nay; not I, who seem to be Privileged at large to wander Where no walls obstruct the blue,   More than you! But where tears have wet the sod, Beautiful may flowers spring, And in cages birds may sing; For there's love, too, little sister, Everywhere that grief hath trod;   And there's God!