16 Feeling, godmother at my birth

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Feeling, godmother at my birth,

aunt, ruth of childlessness, tell

me was it you who touched me with unearth-

ly expectation?  And what strange spell

 

summoned the eschatological  host

that perfumed the rose garden of your ghost-

y hope?  May you bloom with them in some

splendiferous Jerusalem.