A Noble Woman: The Life-Story of Edith CavellProtheroe, Ernest
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A Noble Woman: The Life-Story of Edith Cavell
Protheroe, Ernest
Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915
Later in the day came the final scenes in the obsequies of Edith Cavell
at Norwich Cathedral, where the ashes of the world-famous victim of an
unchivalrous foe had come home for sepulture in an atmosphere of
intimate and almost personal concern. The citizens turned out in tens of
thousands. Every department of the civic life of the county was
represented, but again the nurses were in the forefront of the picture.
Wreaths came from near and far, and among not a few from Belgium was one
inscribed 'Elizabeth, Reine des Belges.'
The tribute of Empire had already been paid in London, and the closing
ceremony was more in keeping with the sweet simplicity of her who was
being laid to rest by the side of her mother amid the peaceful and
mellow surroundings of the ancient Close, in a sequestered little corner
called 'Life's Green.'
At the graveside the Bishop of Norwich delivered a touching address, in
which he dwelt more upon the manner of Nurse Cavell's death rather than
the work of her life. In conclusion he said:
'Edith Cavell rests under the shade of our cathedral in its
eight-hundredth year, adding one more to the long line of those
blessed saints of God over whom it has watched in life and death. We
will think of her while her body rests in its keeping as herself
alive unto God and present with the Lord, and we will look on to the
glad day when she and we and all we love, having waited and watched
for the glory of the Resurrection, at last shall see
The splendour of the morning
Dawn on the hills.'
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Printed by the Southampton Times Company, Ltd., 70 Above Bar
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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