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MATERNITY by BABETTE DEUTSCH

Poet Analysis

First Line: I MUST GO ALL MY DAYS
Last Line: OF THE MIRACULOUS.
Subject(s): MOTHERS;
I MUST go all my days
Softly as snow, whose wings
Follow the hidden ways
Of unimagined springs.

My stricken heart is caught
In briers of surprise;
Its beats are hushed as thought,
And eloquent as eyes.

I cry God to pity them
Whose joy is boisterous,
Since I have touched the hem
Of the miraculous.




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