My Son Passes

Zina Card Brown

Salt Lake City, Utah: General Board of Relief Society, July 1942

Zina Card Brown: Author

Genres

Poetry

Notes

These lines were written by Zina Card Brown, mother of Hugh C. Brown, after receiving a cable from the British War Office advising that he was listed as "missing in action" March 16, 1942, while flying with the Royal Air Force somewhere in England.

Call number

BX 8605.1 .R28 vol.29 no.7

Language

English

First line

My hearth is cold. The gray ash of loss is sprinkled on my brow

On Page

498

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Published in	The Relief Society Magazine, volume 29, issue 7, pages 498, July 1942

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My Son Passes

Zina Card Brown

Salt Lake City, Utah: General Board of Relief Society, July 1942