Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914.
By Robert Cameron RogersThe Rosary
T
Are as a string of pearls to me:
I count them over every one apart,
My Rosary, my Rosary.
To still a heart in absence wrung:
I tell each bead unto the end,
And there a cross is hung!
O barren gain and bitter loss!
I kiss each bead, and strive at last to learn
To kiss the cross; sweetheart! to kiss the cross.