I found in you a holy place apart,
Sublime endurance, God in man revealed
Where mending broken bodies slowly healed
My broken heart.
Source: Epitaph on My Days in Hospital, 1919; Poems of the War and After, 1934.
-- Vera Brittain, (NA 1896-1970), English writer, poet, pacifist; She wrote of WWI experiences in Testament of Youth, 1933; made into English series shown on PBS.