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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CONSTANT FRIEND, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poet's Biography
First Line: Human hopes and human creeds
Last Line: That will keep her to the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids
First Line: Human hopes and human creeds
Last Line: That will keep her to the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids
HUMAN hopes and human creeds
Have their root in human needs,
And I would not wish to strip
From that washerwoman's lip
Any song that she may sing,
Any hope that she can bring;
For the woman has a friend
That will keep her to the end.
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