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Katharine Tynan - Any Woman
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I am the pillars of the house;
      The keystone of the arch am I.
Take me away, and roof and wall
      Would fall to ruin me utterly.

I am the fire upon the hearth,
      I am the light of the good sun,
I am the heat that warms the earth,
      Which else were colder than a stone.

At me the children warm their hands;
      I am their light of love alive.
Without me cold the hearthstone stands,
      Nor could the precious children thrive.

I am the twist that holds together
      The children in its sacred ring,
Their knot of love, from whose close tether
      No lost child goes a-wandering.

I am the house from floor to roof,
      I deck the walls, the board I spread;
I spin the curtains, warp and woof,
      And shake the down to be their bed.
  
I am their wall against all danger,
      Their door against the wind and snow,
Thou Whom a woman laid in a manger,
      Take me not till the children grow!
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