Quakeranne.com "The Lord bless thee and keep thee...." - Numbers 6:24 Quaker Anne Home Plain Dress Info Plain Quaker Dress Christian Spiritual & Plain Essays Simple Living Skills Simple Living Workshops Learn about life on a farm! Click here to read Quaker Anne's Children's Stories Stories include: How Bees Make Honey A Chicken is Born A Haircut for Sheep A Baby Horse is Born A Baby Goat is Born Lassie Saves a Lamb Contact Prayer Requests Links Library Quaker Resources Peace Quotes Prince of Peace Bible Garden Light a Candle for Peace Prayers for Peace Petition please sign Plain Daughter Francis Clare Fischer Daughter mine retreating into Quaker silence. Large grey eyes closed upon the world; black shawl wrapped round like prayer. Thee walks quietly into daily life and fills my hopes of peace continued. Companion to Owls as poor Job lamented; herein, thy joy is found. No long pain of family ill continues in thy walk. Thee has dismissed it and wrapped thy quietness against it. Peace, is there, in thy contentedness; studied though it may be. Here, I find forgiveness of old pain, too long forsworn. Unworldly, by design, cloistered in marriage. Behind the veil of soft grey eyes Is the careful kindness of intentioned grace. With blessings, daughter, I bid thee follow this, thy Quaker habit. - printed by permission from the author