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Robert W Service - The Sewing-GirlRobert W Service - The Sewing-Girl
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The humble garret where I dwell Is in that Quarter called the Latin; It isn`t spacious truth to tell, There`s hardly room to swing a cat in. But what of that! It`s there I fight For food and fame, my Muse inviting, And all the day and half the night You`ll find me writing, writing, writing. Now, it was in the month of May As, wrestling with a rhyme rheumatic, I chanced to look across the way, And lo! within a neighbor attic, A hand drew back the window shade, And there, a picture glad and glowing, I saw a sweet and slender maid, And she was sewing, sewing, sewing. So poor the room, so small, so scant, Yet somehow oh, so bright and airy. There was a pink geranium plant, Likewise a very pert canary. And in the maiden`s heart it seemed Some fount of gladness must be springing, For as alone I sadly dreamed I heard her singing, singing, singing. God love her! how it cheered me then To see her there so brave and pretty; So she with needle, I with pen, We slaved and sang above the city. And as across my streams of ink I watched her from a poet`s distance, She stitched and sang . . . I scarcely think She was aware of my existence. And then one day she sang no more. That put me out, there`s no denying. I looked she labored as before, But, bless me! she was crying, crying. Her poor canary chirped in vain; Her pink geranium drooped in sorrow; "Of course," said I, "she`ll sing again. Maybe," I sighed, "she will to-morrow." Poor child; `twas finished with her song: Day after day her tears were flowing; And as I wondered what was wrong She pined and peaked above her sewing. And then one day the blind she drew, Ah! though I sought with vain endeavor To pierce the darkness, well I knew My sewing-girl had gone for ever. And as I sit alone to-night My eyes unto her room are turning . . . I`d give the sum of all I write Once more to see her candle burning, Once more to glimpse her happy face, And while my rhymes of cheer I`m ringing, Across the sunny sweep of space To hear her singing, singing, singing.
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