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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WHILE THEY CRADLE CLOTHES...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography
First Line: And those who do their washing in a stream
Last Line: That men who labour gather while they toil.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Labor & Laborers; Sea; Work; Workers; Ocean
First Line: And those who do their washing in a stream
Last Line: That men who labour gather while they toil.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Labor & Laborers; Sea; Work; Workers; Ocean
And those who do their washing in a stream
Are doubtless near relations of the ones
Who do their scrubbing in a sink or clean
The grime of cities in a tub. The stones
The outdoor women use to hold the field
Of white from flying off without a sound
Are possibly like those the earth must yield
To keep the corners of the sea aground:
In either case, the figures of the bent
Resemble semi-circles of the moon;
Their toes and hump and fingers curve assent,
The while they cradle clothes in water, croon
A sort of lullaby above the soil
That men who labour gather while they toil.
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