Accession: A10018
Editorial Title: I'm Sitting Alone
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 3, 1866 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined paper from Lynn, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: The date of this poem is an archivist estimate.
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I'm Sitting Alone

By Mary M. Patterson

I'm sitting alone where the shadows fall In somber As Written: sombre groups at the vesper-call Where tear dewsAs Written:teardews of night find the loving rose Her bosom to fill with mortal woes

I'm waiting alone at the bridal hour Of Nymph and Naiad from woodland bower Till vestal pearls that on leaflet shall lay Ravish with beauty the eye of day

I'm watching alone for the starlitAs Written:star-lit glow The modest moon and the ocean flow And sketching in light the heavens of my youth Its starry As Written: stary hopes and its waves of truth

I'm dreaming alone of its summer sky The rainbows of rapture floating by Of a Mother's love that no words could speak When parting the curls to kiss my cheek

I'm thinking alone of a fair young bride The light of a home of love and pride How the glance of her husband's watchful eye Turned to his star of idolatry

I'm picturing alone a glad young face Turned to his Mother in playful grace

I'm weeping alone that the vision's fledEditorial Note: In Mary Baker Eddy’s book of Poems, page 9, this reads "the vision is fled." The leaves all faded the fruitage shed And wishing this earth more gifts from above Our reason made right and hearts all love

Lynn MassachusettsAs Written:Mass.

Of the unsealed fountain of grief and joy That gushed at the birth of her beautiful boy

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I'm Sitting Alone

By Mary M. Patterson

I'm sitting alone where the shadows fall In sombre Corrected: somber groups at the vesper-call Where teardewsCorrected:tear dews of night find the loving rose Her bosom to fill with mortal woes

I'm [?] Unclear or illegible waiting alone at for the bridal hour Of Nymph and Naiad from woodland bower Till v [?] Unclear or illegible estal pearls that on leaflet shall lay Ravish with beauty the eye of day

I'm watching alone for the star-litCorrected:starlit glow The modest moon and the ocean flow And sketching in light the heavens of my youth Its stary Corrected: starry hopes and its waves of truth

I'm dreaming alone of its summer sk [?] Unclear or illegible y The rainbows of rapture floating by Of a Mother's love that no words could speak When parting the curls to kiss my cheek

I'm thinking alone of a fair young bride The light of a home of love and pride How the glance of her husband's watchful eye Turned to his star of idolatry

I'm picturing alone a glad young face Turned to his Mother in playful grace The springtime blossoms of hope and of joy That clustered round her beautiful boy Cluste'ring around her beautiful boy

I'm weeping alone that the vision's fledEditorial Note: In Mary Baker Eddy’s book of Poems, page 9, this reads "the vision is fled." The leaves all faded the fruitage shed And wishing this earth more gifts from above Our reason made right and hearts all love

Lynn Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts

I'm thinking alone of that a marble form And the spirit that hovered. Of the unsealed fountain of grief and joy That gushed at the birth of her beautiful boy

 
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In Mary Baker Eddy’s book of Poems, page 9, this reads "the vision is fled."