Chapter 15 No.15

(Celeste writes to her father in his imprisonment at Siena.)

Dear father, it will seem a thousand years

Until I see you home again and well.

I would not have you doubt that all this time

I have prayed for you continually. I saw

A copy of your sentence. I was grieved;

And yet it gladdened me, for I found a way

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