Her eyes would glaze over,

a slurring of speech

some hazardous moments

an unnatural breech.

Soon she declined

deprived of sound mind, and who knows

what images lay there behind.

Within some months she was carried off

peremptorily by unseen forces.

In the darkness the answer lay

the divine intervention of counterplay.

Now the daughters have taken over, the hous...

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