10 Jul 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Submitted by Barbara Anslow on

After Oriana's funeral, wrote poem:-

'I have seen the anxious and fearful eyes

Of a wife who knows that her husband lies.

I have heard the hopeless moan of despair

Of a woman whose man is no longer there.

I have stood by the open grave of a child

Whose mother stood by while the earth was piled.

Faithlessness, death – all the risks that attend 

Attachments on which we would grow to depend;

I wonder, would this make me hesitate

Though all other voices say 'Marry thy mate' ?

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