Poem by TC Murray

From a newspaper cutting:

In Memoriam
May Cotter, Emerald Place, Blarney

How beautiful she sleeps
    After the days of pain,
With that strange, sweet light upon her,
    Like starlight after rain !

It is the kiss of angels,
    In radiance ling'ring there;
Or else 'tis the trailing glory
    Of a soul divinely fair.

Ah me ! 'twas the long, rough way
   For the tender feet of a child;
'Twas the cruel road to be turning,
  When Youth and Promise smiled.

But love was strong as the sea,
  And deep as the sea was Faith :
When Love and Faith clasp hands,
  The gate of Heaven is death.

And so, like a spirit refreshed
  By a draught which the angels bring,
She walked with her bleeding feet,
  And smiled at suffering !

Now beautiful she lies,
  After the days of pain,
With that wondrous light upon her,
    Like starlight after rain.

Oct, 1909                  -- T.C.M.

May Cotter died 14 Oct 1909, aged 18
Poem by her uncle T.C. Murray (Thomas Cornelius Murray), teacher, playwright and poet, (1873-1959)