Covington Hall

“ Hope's halo on your forehead and your eyes with love a-light.
Dear Mary of Magdala, when all other stars have set,
The lodestar of your spirit will o'er Jesus linger yet;
On the cross upon Golgotha, when forsaken from above,
And all mankind denies me, you will comfort me with love.
Ere I leave the world behind me, on the ship of death depart,
From my prison cell I send you this last message from my heart;
This last message, dear, I send you ere the shrouds around me fall,—
You have been to me the love-light, and the love-light is the all.. ”