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1881–1941

THREE DOMINICAN NUNS

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

One day they came; I heard their feet. They made a tapping on the street. And as they passed before our trees, Their shawls blew out in curves like threes,

And bent again in twos and L's; The wind blew on their rosaries And made them ring like little bells.

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