An Idol of Clay
Nixon Waterman
1859 to 1944
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Told she the world of the bitter cheat?
With her hands across her breast.
For hid in her heart of hearts she kept
All that a woman may!
For one little circle of gold.
What did she give for her wedding-ring?
All that a heart could hold;
What did the gifts to the giver bring?
All of her smiles and all of her tears.
Only an idol of clay.
Her thorns of woe. And so she slept
With the garments of her grace.
And no one knew of the tears she wept;
All of her hopes and all of her fears,
Ah, no! With a smiling face
All the sweet dreams of her girlhood years,
Her griefs they were never guessed,
She clothed her idol from head to feet
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