Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IMPROMPTU ON WRITING A LETTER WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING TO SAY, by WILLIAM COWPER


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First Line: So have I seen the maids in vain
Last Line: And what was work is changed to play.
Subject(s): Letters


So have I seen the maids in vain
Tumble and tease a tangled skein;
They bite the lip and scratch the head,
And cry, "The deuce is in the thread!"
They torture it and jerk it round,
Till the right end at last is found;
Then wind, and wind, and wind away,
And what was work is changed to play.





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