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Archibald MacLeish - Poem in ProseArchibald MacLeish - Poem in Prose
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This poem is for my wife. I have made it plainly and honestly: The mark is on it Like the burl on the knife. I have not made it for praise. She has no more need for praise Than summer has Or the bright days. In all that becomes a woman Her words and her ways are beautiful: Love`s lovely duty, the well-swept room. Wherever she is there is sun And time and a sweet air: Peace is there, Work done. There are always curtains and flowers And candles and baked bread And a cloth spread And a clean house. Her voice when she sings is a voice At dawn by a freshening spring Where the wave leaps in the wind And rejoices. Wherever she is it is now. It is here where the apples are: Here in the stars, In the quick hour. The greatest and richest good, My own life to live in, This she has given me If giver could.
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