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ANTICIPATION by LEONA BOLT MARTIN

First Line: WITH SINGING HEART AND LIGHTENED STEP
Last Line: FOR SHE IS COMING HOME.
Subject(s): BIRTH; CHILD BIRTH; MIDWIFERY;

With singing heart and lightened step
I go about my work;
With joy, I now perform the tasks
That are so wont to irk.

With thoughts upon all things to please,
I hurry to and fro,
And change an object here and there
To make a room "just so."

The house, though old when her baby feet
Throughout its rooms would roam,
Takes on a brighter look, it seems,
For she is coming home.



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