Poem by George MacDonald

The Gospel Women. 2. The Woman that lifted up her Voice

  Filled with his words of truth and right,
  Her heart will break or cry:
  A woman's cry bursts forth in might
  Of loving agony.

  "Blessed the womb, thee, Lord, that bare!
  The bosom that thee fed!"
  A moment's silence filled the air,
  All heard the words she said.

  He turns his face: he knows the cry,
  The fountain whence it springs--
  A woman's heart that glad would die
  For woman's best of things.

  Good thoughts, though laggard in the rear,
  He never quenched or chode:
  "Yea, rather, blessed they that hear
  And keep the word of God!"

  He would uplift her, not rebuke.
  The crowd began to stir.
  We miss how she the answer took;
  We hear no more of her.

1. To S. F. S.
2. The Gospel Women. 6. The Woman whom Satan had bound
3. The Gospel Women. 4. The Syrophenician Woman
4. The Gospel Women. 15. Mary
5. The Gospel Women. 11. The Woman of Samaria

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