Poem for Sallie Batton who died with No Family! Please Pray for those who are Alone...
" IF God compel thee to this destiny,
To die alone, with none beside thy bed
To ruffle round with sobs thy last word said
And mark with tears the pulses ebb from thee,--
Pray then alone, ' O Christ, come tenderly !
By thy forsaken Sonship in the red
Drear wine-press,--by the wilderness out-spread,--
And the lone garden where thine agony
Fell bloody from thy brow,--by all of those
Permitted desolation s, comfort mine !
No earthly friend being near me, interpose
No deathly angel 'twixt my face aud thine,
But stoop Thyself to gather my life's rose,
And smile away my mortal to Divine ! '
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sallie I. Batton, 66, passed away on December 12, 2013 at Ft. Collins Health Care Center where she was dearly loved and will be missed by all of the dedicated staff that cared for her. Sallie is preceded in death by her father, Joel Bradshaw from Shreveport, Louisiana. Very little is known about this lovely lady.