Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MIS' SMITH, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE


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First Line: All day she hurried to get through
Last Line: "I reckon."
Subject(s): Desire; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ALL day she hurried to get through,
The same as lots of wimmin do;
Sometimes at night her husban' said,
"Ma, ain't you goin' to come to bed?"
And then she'd kinder give a hitch,
And pause half way between a stitch,
And sorter sigh, and say that she
Was ready as she'd ever be,
She reckoned.

And so the years went one by one,
An' somehow she was never done;
An' when the angel said, as how
"Mis' Smith, it's time you rested now,"
She sorter raised her eyes to look
A second, as a stitch she took;
"All right, I'm comin' now," says she,
"I'm ready as I'll ever be,
I reckon."





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