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Rh A simple truthfulness, and these have lent her

A dignity as moveless as the centre;

So that no influence of our earth can stir

Her steadfast courage, nor can take away

The holy peacefulness, which night and day,

Unto her queenly soul doth minister.

Most gentle is she; her large charity

(An all unwitting, childlike gift in her)

Not freer is to give than meek to bear;

And, though herself not unacquaint with care,

Hath in her heart wide room for all that be,—

Her heart that hath no secrets of its own,

But open is as eglantine full blown.

Cloudless forever is her brow serene,

Speaking calm hope and trust within her, whence

Welleth a noiseless spring of patience,

That keepeth all her life so fresh, so green

And full of holiness, that every look,

The greatness of her woman's soul revealing,