title: Why Weep and Wait? A Civil War Tale
author: Cathwren Hermon
description: Traveling from her home sixty miles from Gettysburg, Cathwren Hermon has often walked the battlefields and felt the living presence of those who gave their last full measure of devotion there.
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  **K** **ATHLEEN** **E.**  
   **W** **OODIWISS** ****
  
  **A R** **OSE** ******I** **N** ******W** **INTER** ********
  
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  Dedicated to those readers who  
  have written letters of encouragement.  
  Thank you. You’re appreciated.
  
  K.E.W.
  
  ******A Rose in Winter** ****
  
  A crimson bloom in winter’s snow,
  
  Born out of time, like a maiden’s woe,
  
  Spawned in a season when the chill winds blow.
  
  ’Twas found in a sheltered spot,
  
  Bright sterling gules and blemished not,
  
  Red as a drop o’ blood from the broken heart,
  
  Of the maid who waits and weeps atop the tor,
  
  Left behind by yon argent knight sworn to war,
  
  ’Til ajousting and aquesting he goes no more.
  
  Fear not, Sweet Jo, amoulderin’ on the moor.
  
  The winter’s rose doth promise in the fading runes of yore,
  
  That true love once found will again be restored.
  
  **Contents**
  
  Epigraph:  A Rose in Winter
  
    
  
  Chapter One
  
  “Marriage!”
  
  Chapter Two
  
  The front door closed gently but with the same eff