Veronica's Napkin

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

The Heavenly Circuit; Berenice's Hair; Tent-pole of Eden; the tent's drapery; Symbolical glory of thc earth and air! The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

Some found a different pole, and where it stood A pattern on a napkin dipped in blood.

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    This poem predicts me. I am the Duaghter of God, the Sister of Christ; I am the girl who came out of the crowd and wiped Jesus's face with a white cloth, and He granted me the miracle of having His face imprinted upon the cloth I carried. I guarded that cloth with my life and went to live in France, at Sou-Lad-sur-Mer, near Bordeaux. I hace written a novel, called "VOyage back to the Garden", which is the story of a girl's romance with God. PLease read it. It will come out in the United States published by either Simon & Schuster or St. Martin's Press. God be with you.

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