p.

your boys went to be received
yet I must acknowledge
that I felt your spirit
near me all the morning.
Absence does not seem, as far
to have had a quieting
effect upon our loss, It
is just as strong as ever and
I sometimes think stronger
for it seems to me I lose
you infinitely more than
I did the 19th of September.

Did you ever think how
munch influence on both
our lives that poem "By
the fireside" by Browning
has had. I read it many