Marguerite deAngeli Collection

Lapeer District Library

Friendship and Other Poems

Mrs. deAngeli's last book was published in 1981 by WestminsterPress. 2,000 books were issued. She writes of childhood, marriage,parenting, grandparenting, friendship, separation, and ultimate"Transcendence". Here own rich life-experiences inspiremany of the topics... Her lifelong commitment to children is perhapssummed up in the lines:

"...And friendship from the lovely child, An instant love.'Twill never die."

Transcendence When comes by time to leave this lovely Vale Let me not give pain to those I love, But gently slip away through that dark Dale Where harmonies in a garden move And draw me on to flowers fragrant, bright - Where loved ones wait, all shadowy, but real, loved ones long gone beyond my ken and sight - No moon, no sun their separate selves reveal But God's own lovely light floods all! And then I know all's well and I am Home again.