| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | The Woman That Lifted up Her Voice | | George MacDonald (1824–1905) |
| | | 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. | |
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| “Blessed the womb, thee, Lord, that bare! | 5 |
| The bosom that thee fed!” | |
| A moment’s silence filled the air | |
| When she the word had said. | |
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| He turns his face to meet the cry; | |
| He knows from whence it springs— | 10 |
| A woman’s heart that glad would die | |
| For woman’s best of things. | |
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| Such son to bear, such son to rear, | |
| The generations laud. | |
| “Yea, rather, blessed they that hear, | 15 |
| And keep the word of God.” | |
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| The tone was love and not rebuke; | |
| But ’mid the murmured stir, | |
| She, sure, was silent in her nook; | |
| No answer came from her. | 20 | | | |
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