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To One Loved Wholly Within Wisdom
Someone will reap you like a field,
Pile your gathered plunder,
Pile your gathered plunder,
Garner what you bring to yield,
Turn your beauty under;
Turn your beauty under;
In cruel usages, in such
Sickle-cutting, heaping,
Sickle-cutting, heaping,
Certain women toil too much,
Weary of their reaping;
Weary of their reaping;
Someone else may winnow you;
Someone else may plunder;
Someone else may plunder;
I have cut too many new
Swathes, and broken under
Swathes, and broken under
Soil that should have fallow lain
To be greedy either
To be greedy either
For the shattered stalk, the stain
Where the clusters wither.
Where the clusters wither.
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