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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CHARWOMAN, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS
Last Line: Spent dozing in the sun.
Subject(s): Old Age
Last Line: Spent dozing in the sun.
Subject(s): Old Age
Her form is forward bent
From years of stooping down.
She is a lonely ghost
Haunting a dismal town.
Day after day she goes
To her ignoble task,
Her face is sad and dull,
A somber, withered mask.
Yet she was once a girl
With laughter lifted face;
Supple and straight and slim,
Hers was a sapling's grace.
And once she dreamed of love,
A home that love had won,
Of comfortable old age
Spent dozing in the sun.
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