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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT WORK, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poet's Biography
First Line: It's too much: this hard work
Last Line: Hardly changed at all
Subject(s): Morning; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness
First Line: It's too much: this hard work
Last Line: Hardly changed at all
Subject(s): Morning; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness
It's too much: this hard work --
All night chipping on the stone of sleep . . .
And then to wake in the morning
And find only the old, known,
Statue of solitude --
Hardly changed at all . . .
Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org
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