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"There is a destiny that makes men brothers:

None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others:

Comes back into our own.”

Mildred J. Douglass: favorite poems...penned by others

Too Late - Josephine Edwards

A leper sat beside a cave

In upper Galilee.

His face was eaten with disease,

'Twas terrible to see.

But tidings had been drifting in,

Been told by word of mouth

That even lepers had been cleansed

By a healer in the South.

He worked around Jerusalem

He'd even raised the dead

And hungry souls by thousands fed

On fishes and on bread.

I think I'll go, the leper said,

And see what can be seen

Perhaps He'll see my sorry plight

Perhaps He'll make me clean.

He put it off from day to day

It was too hot, too cold.

He felt the lethargy of disease,

And he was growing old.

At last three years had come and gone

And quickly passed away

Before the leper roused himself

And went upon his way.

When his weary eyes beheld at last

That his journey's end was nigh

He saw three crosses etched in black

Against the darkening sky.