evidence: This poem is a prayer for where this can pandemic might lead us, a belief in transformation. If it was written in 1869, we have failed its vision. If it was reposted in 1919, we failed again. If this voice is truly from the past, then history has repeated itself, and likely will repeat itself, and hope is gone. [...] There was an Irish-French writer named Kathleen O’Meara who was writing in 1869. She did not write this poem. This poem was written by Catherine "Kitty" O’Meara, a retired teacher from Wisconsin, this year, in response to this pandemic. It is on her blog. She has recorded it. People have interviewed her about it.