Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WORKINGMAN, by RICHARD DEHMEL


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THE WORKINGMAN, by                    
First Line: We have a bed, we have a child
Last Line: Just time!
Subject(s): Time


We have a bed, we have a child,
my wife!
We have work to do,—you and I too,
we have wind and rain and a sun that's mild,
and all that we lack is a little thing,
to be as free as the birds on the wing!
Just time.

When we go through the fields on a Sabbath day,
my child,
and over the meadows everywhere
we see the swallows, gleaming and gay,
we can look as bright as birds of the air,
it is not raiment for which we pray:
Just time.

Just time! we scent stormwinds, wrathful and wild,
we folk.
Only a small eternity;
all that we lack, my wife, my child,
is what we make blossom and bear and be,
to feel as bold as the birds in the tree.
Just time!





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