Julia Miller + 

We quarreled that morning, + 

For he was sixty-five, and I was thirty, + 

And I was nervous and heavy with the child + 

Whose birth I dreaded. + 

I thought over the last letter written me + 

By that estranged young soul + 

Whose betrayal of me I had concealed + 

By marrying the old man. + 

Then I took morphine and sat down to read. + 

Across the blackness that came over my eyes + 

I see the flickering light of these words even now: + 

“And Jesus said unto him, Verily + 

I say unto thee, To-day thou shalt + 

Be with me in paradise.” + 