A LAST MESSAGE
BY GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD
DEAR, I lie dying, and thou dost not know—Thou whom of all the world I love the best,And wilt not know until I lie at rest,With lips forever closed and lids dropped low.O Love, O Love, I cannot leave thee so!Cannot, still undivined, still unexpressed,Unheeding to the last my heart’s behest,Dumb into the eternal silence go!What reck I in this moment of disgrace?Albeit the whole world hear what my heart saith,I cry aloud to thee across all space,To thee—to thee—I call with my last breath!O Love, lean forth from out thy dwelling-place!Listen, and learn I loved thee, Love, till death.
DEAR, I lie dying, and thou dost not know—Thou whom of all the world I love the best,And wilt not know until I lie at rest,With lips forever closed and lids dropped low.O Love, O Love, I cannot leave thee so!Cannot, still undivined, still unexpressed,Unheeding to the last my heart’s behest,Dumb into the eternal silence go!What reck I in this moment of disgrace?Albeit the whole world hear what my heart saith,I cry aloud to thee across all space,To thee—to thee—I call with my last breath!O Love, lean forth from out thy dwelling-place!Listen, and learn I loved thee, Love, till death.
DEAR, I lie dying, and thou dost not know—Thou whom of all the world I love the best,And wilt not know until I lie at rest,With lips forever closed and lids dropped low.O Love, O Love, I cannot leave thee so!Cannot, still undivined, still unexpressed,Unheeding to the last my heart’s behest,Dumb into the eternal silence go!What reck I in this moment of disgrace?Albeit the whole world hear what my heart saith,I cry aloud to thee across all space,To thee—to thee—I call with my last breath!O Love, lean forth from out thy dwelling-place!Listen, and learn I loved thee, Love, till death.
DEAR, I lie dying, and thou dost not know—
Thou whom of all the world I love the best,
And wilt not know until I lie at rest,
With lips forever closed and lids dropped low.
O Love, O Love, I cannot leave thee so!
Cannot, still undivined, still unexpressed,
Unheeding to the last my heart’s behest,
Dumb into the eternal silence go!
What reck I in this moment of disgrace?
Albeit the whole world hear what my heart saith,
I cry aloud to thee across all space,
To thee—to thee—I call with my last breath!
O Love, lean forth from out thy dwelling-place!
Listen, and learn I loved thee, Love, till death.
THOMAS JEFFERSONFROM THE STATUE BY KARL BITTER, FOR THEJEFFERSON MEMORIAL IN ST. LOUISThis statue will be unveiled in the presence of a congressionalcommittee on April 30, 1913, the one hundred and tenth anniversaryof the Louisiana Purchase.❏LARGER IMAGE
THOMAS JEFFERSON
FROM THE STATUE BY KARL BITTER, FOR THEJEFFERSON MEMORIAL IN ST. LOUIS
This statue will be unveiled in the presence of a congressionalcommittee on April 30, 1913, the one hundred and tenth anniversaryof the Louisiana Purchase.
❏LARGER IMAGE