Sonnet by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Why did you go to church this morning? To be near me. "Beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God." Even in his own house I did not concentrate on the service. Selfishly - my heart said little more than "God bless John." Vain repetition!! How about the prayer book? Oh God, what makes me so small that that I applied one of your hymns of praise to a mortal man. "This growing weight of precious earthly Love, / Binds down the spirit that would soar to God."*
Sonnet by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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ContextThis is the journal of Virginia Lee Scott, my grandmother, written when she was seventeen and first dating my grandfather, John Arnold Wilson. It's a dairy published by Media Drug Stores and includes space for two entries per day, with facts about the era printed at the bottom, which I have included in italics. Following, 1928, is the journal of John Arnold Wilson, my grandfather, at age nineteen and in love with my grandmother, followed by my grandmother's journal in 1931. Archives
April 2018
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