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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FARM WOMAN, by BERNICE CAREY FITCH
First Line: The children finally in bed, each bare
Last Line: To join her man in sleep's well-earned repose.
Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas
First Line: The children finally in bed, each bare
Last Line: To join her man in sleep's well-earned repose.
Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas
The children finally in bed, each bare
Foot scrubbed and dried before it climbed the stair,
The milk pails washed and set up in a row,
The day's unending toil at last runs low,
And she may rest a moment on the seat
Out underneath the elm, her slow heartbeat
The only effort now that weary strength
Need make; and as the twilight's blue-gray length
Unfolds across the fields, her tired eyes
Look off to where, pale gold, a crescent lies
Above the western hills. The stars appear
And bring their friendly high still silence near.
At last up through the darkening yard she goes
To join her man in sleep's well-earned repose.
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