Julia L. M. Woodruff

Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff (April 29, 1832 – April 21, 1909) was an American poet and anthologist from Newtown, Connecticut. She also wrote under the pen name W. M. L. Jay. Quotes Out of the strain of the Doing,    Into the peace of the Done; Out of the thirst of Pursuing,    Into the rapture of Won. Out of gray mist into brightness,    Out of pale dusk into dawn,— Out of all wrong—into rightness,    We from these fields shall be gone. "Nay," say the saints," not gone, but come, Into eternity's Harvest-Home!" "Gone", st. 5, in He Giveth Songs: A Collection of Religious Lyrics (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1885), pp. 13–14. Republished in The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading (May, 1910), p. 534 External links Troy J. Bassett, "Author: Julia L. M. Woodruff", At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837—1901 (30 August 2026) Category:1832 births Category:1909 deaths Category:Poets from the United States Category:People from Connecticut Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 19th century