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WEIGHTS by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON

First Line: MY MOTHER SAID I WAS A FOOL
Last Line: I SAID OF MY BROTHER.
Subject(s): FOOLS; IDIOTS;
My mother said I was a fool
But, oh, she loved her son.
My father said, "A rod is the fool's,"
And I, "Thy hand hast done?"

My mother said, "The ears of a fool,"
But, oh, she whispered pretty
Unto her son of a honeycomb
And silver in the city.

And "Wisdom is too high for a fool,"
My mother said to me;
"Where no wood is the fire is out;
I bind no stones," said she.

"The weights of the bag are the Lord's"
I said to my mother;
"A potsherd covered with silver dross,"
I said of my brother.



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