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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE COUNTERPANE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON
First Line: Who were you, with the busy, patient hands
Last Line: The simple pattern of your peerless days.
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters
First Line: Who were you, with the busy, patient hands
Last Line: The simple pattern of your peerless days.
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters
Who were you, with the busy, patient hands
That spun and wove the even fadeless thread
In faultless pattern? Was it for bridal bed
You sang untiring at your tasks' demands?
Was it for hire?—watching the trickling sands
In some slow glass? Or daughter duty led?
Or goodly dame with mother-haloed head?
How strangely silent are old wonderlands!
Down the long vista of the misty years
Your children look to watch you spin and weave,
Your flying shuttle glinting through the haze.
Cut lie a cameo, the vision clears,
Warmly remembering that you gift-wise leave
The simple pattern of your peerless days.
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