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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DAILY BREAD: PREFACE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: All life moving to one measure
Last Line: "love, are there not crumbs to treasure?"
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers
First Line: All life moving to one measure
Last Line: "love, are there not crumbs to treasure?"
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers
All life moving to one measure --
Daily bread, daily bread --
Bread of life, and bread of labour,
Bread of bitterness and sorrow,
Hand-to-mouth, and no to-morrow,
Dearth for housemate, death for neighbour...
"Yet, when all the babes are fed,
Love, are there not crumbs to treasure?"
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