Mary Larcom Dow.
Monday, July 7, 1919.
Mrs. Dow wrote to a California friend, Mrs. Gertrude Payne Bridgeford, a short time before her death:
"I'd give my chance of a satin gown to see you, and I hope I shall live to do that, but if I don't, remember that I love you always, here or there, and I quote here my favorite verse from Weir Mitchell,
'Yes, I have had dear Lord, the day,
When, at thy call, I have the night,
Brief be the twilight as I pass
From light to dark, from dark to light.'"
Her prayer was answered for the twilight was brief.