And suffering poured itself through all her life.
Her body’s powers were sapped, as one could see
By some great struggle in her inmost soul.
She told me, when in my anxiety,—
I plied her oft with many questionings—
She felt herself exposed to fearful thoughts
Which frightened her and worked like fire within.
And what she said besides—’tis terrible,
For when she rallied all her powers of thought
To find the cause of all this suffering