Poems (Chilton, 1885)/Mrs. Garfield
MRS. GARFIELD.
O, type of truest womanhood! The deepest wounded, yet most brave!Surely the merciful All-Good To thee hath given the power to save.
For when the sufferer's eyes were dim With mists, presaging all we feared,The light in thine which fell on him Dispelled those mists, and soothed and cheered.
And when his fainting heart was stirred By the bowed Nation's pleading prayer,Thine was the unfaltering voice he heard That whispered—"Patience, God will spare!"