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First Line: O would you dream of poems in a wash-tub
Last Line: Portraits clean cut, her swinging line of clothes.
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Dreams; Laundry & Laundering; Poetry & Poets; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants; Nightmares


O would you dream of poems in a wash-tub,
The washer-woman's pose like one of art,
Her rub-a-dub to mean a French translation
Or steaming suds of rainbow clouds a part?

Yet what an art to cleanse the sordid linen,
Life's masterpiece, the worker drab and plain,
What palaces of dreams, what thoughts and fancies
The suds reveal, what memories enchain!

Ah, blowing in the wind, green sward beneath them,
Sweet smelling, spotless, purged of all one loathes,
Most surely art, the washer woman's Rembrandt --
Portraits clean cut, her swinging line of clothes.





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