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Kansas Women in Literature by Nettie Garmer Barker
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Yet--would we stray to Morning Hills
again?
Unlearn sad prophecies, and dream as
then!

Ah, no! with sense of peace the shadows
creep,
There droppeth on tired eyes the spell of
sleep--

We left the dawn long leagues behind, and
stand,
Waiting and wistful in the Evening Land!

The patient Nurse of Destiny, at best,
Leads us like children to the needed rest!


A ghostly wind puts out our little light,
And we have bid the busy world ``Good Night!''


Mrs. Stockton was married twice. Her
first husband was the father of her two sons,
one of whom, Dr. Henry M. Downs, in his
practice, came often to St. Margaret's. The
second marriage, as the wife of the late Judge
John S. Stockton, was a very happy one. Last
year, a brother the only surviving member of
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