Poetry.
OYER AND OYER AGAIN - .
Over and over again My duties wait for me, Tney ever come in the montonous round— Breakfast and dinner and tea, Smoothing the snow-white clothes, Sweeping and dusting with care. - Ihere is ever some task in my little home To brighten it everywhere. What may I claim for my duties’ fee ? Are these rounds of endless tasks to be Naught but a dull monotony Over and over again ? Over and over again The sun sinks low in the west, And always over and over again The birds come back to the nest. The robin sings to his loving mate, Close, close to my cottage door, The same glad song I have heard him sing For many a day before. What does the robin say to me ? If the heart is tuned to love’s glad key No task can be dull monotony,
Though over and over again. —(Ada S. Sherwood in Good Housekeeping.)
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 43, 20 January 1894, Page 7
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157Poetry. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 43, 20 January 1894, Page 7
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