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First Line: Her washing ended with the day
Last Line: And went to making pies.
Subject(s): Housewives


HER washing ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And passed the long, long night away
In darning ragged hose.

But when the sun in all its state
Illumed the Eastern skies,
She passed about the kitchen grate
And went to making pies.





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