Poem January 17, 1983 Issue

The woman and the book

MARGARET TSUDA

The woman spent her childhood
in a lovely corner of the universe
where the spring-flowering arbutus
pushing up through
the dead leaves of winter
scents the air around.

As she matured,
the early expectations
of her earth-existence were
brought to naught among woes of
bereavement/near-poverty/ill health.
Then, what seemed to be
the end
proved to be
a beginning!

To onlookers it was a wrought miracle,
but the woman
discovered it to be
the natural working
of God's law/His love.

Her book—
the flowering of pure
spiritual understanding—
has perfumed the
world's thought-atmosphere
with the sweetness of divine Love,
with the pungency of immutable Truth.

We, who receive
daily blessings from this book,
feel ourselves to be
among the first fruits
of a yet untold harvest
of countless generations of humankind
to be ceaselessly grateful
to this God-inspired woman
Mary Baker Eddy
and her unique book with its uncommon title

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

MARGARET TSUDA

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