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These are the words of Jacob's wives the words	A
Which Leah spake and Rachel to his ears	B
When in the shade at eventide he sat	C
By the tent door a palm tree overhead	D
A spring beside him and the sheep around	E
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And Rachel spake and said The nightfall comes	F
Night which all day I wait for and for thee	G
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And Leah also spake The day is done	H
My lord with toil is weary and would rest	I
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And Rachel said Come O my Jacob come	J
And we will think we sit beside the well	K
As in that day the long long years agone	H
When first I met thee with my father's flock	L
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And Leah said Come Israel unto me	G
And thou shalt reap an harvest of fair sons	M
E'en as before I bare thee goodly babes	N
For when was Leah fruitless to my lord	O
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And Rachel said Ah come as then thou cam'st	P
Come once again to set thy seal of love	Q
As then down bending when the sheep had drunk	R
Thou settedst it my shepherd O sweet seal	S
Upon the unwitting half foretasting lips	T
Which shy and trembling thirsted yet for thine	H
As cattle thirsted never for the spring	U
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And Leah answered Are not these their names	V
As Reuben Simeon Levi Judah four	W
Like four young saplings by the water's brim	X
Where straining rivers through the great plain wind	Y
Four saplings soon to rise to goodly trees	Z
Four trees whose growth shall cast an huger shade	A2
Than ever yet on river side was seen	H
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And Rachel said And shall it be again	H
As when dissevered far unheard alone	H
Consumed in bitter anger all night long	B2
I moaned and wept while silent and discreet	P
One reaped the fruit of love that Rachel's was	C2
Upon the breast of him that knew her not	D2
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And Leah said And was it then a wrong	B2
That in submission to a father's word	E2
Trembling yet hopeful to that bond I crept	F2
Which God hath greatly prospered and my lord	O
Content in after wisdom not disowned	G2
Joyful in after thankfulness approved	H2
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And Rachel said But we will not complain	H
Though all life long an alien unsought third	E2
She trouble our companionship of love	Q
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And Leah answered No complain we not	D2
Though years on years she loiter in the tent	I2
A fretful vain unprofitable wife	J2
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And Rachel answered Ah she little knows	K2
What in old days to Jacob Rachel was	C2
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And Leah said And wilt thou dare to say	L2
Because my lord was gracious to thee then	H
No deeper thought his riper cares hath claimed	M2
No stronger purpose passed into his life	J2
That youth and maid once fondly softly touched	N2
Time's years must still the casual dream repeat	P
And all the river far from source to sea	G
One flitting moment's chance reflection bear	O2
Also she added Who is she to judge	P2
Of thoughts maternal and a father's heart	Q2
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And Rachel said But what to supersede	R2
The rights which choice bestowed hath Leah done	H
What which my handmaid or which hers hath not	D2
Is Simeon more than Napthali is Dan	H
Less than his brother Levi in the house	S2
That part that Billah and that Zilpah have	T2
That and no more hath Leah in her lord	O
And let her with the same be satisfied	U2
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Leah asked then And shall these things compare	O2
Fond wishes and the pastime and the play	L2
With serious aims and forward working hopes	V2
Aims as far reaching as to earth's last age	W2
And hopes far travelling as from east to west	I
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Rachel replied That love which in his youth	X2
Through trial proved consoles his perfect age	W2
Shall this with project and with plan compare	O2
Is not for ever shorter than all time	Y2
And love more straitened than from east to west	I
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Leah spake further Hath my lord not told	Z2
How in the visions of the night his God	A3
The God of Abraham and of Isaac spake	B3
And said Increase and multiply and fill	C3
With sons to serve Me this thy land and mine	H
And I will surely do thee good and make	B3
Thy seed as is the sand beside the sea	G
Which is not numbered for its multitude	D3
Shall Rachel bear this progeny to God	A3
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But Rachel wept and answered And if God	A3
Hath closed the womb of Rachel until now	H
Shall He not at His pleasure open it	E3
Hath Leah read the counsels of the Lord	O
Was it not told her in the ancient days	F3
How Sarah mother of great Israel's sire	G3
Lived to long years insulted of her slave	H3
Or e'er to light the Child of Promise came	I3
Whom Rachel too to Jacob yet may bear	O2
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Moreover Rachel said Shall Leah mock	L
Who stole the prime embraces of my love	Q
My first long destined long withheld caress	J3
But not she said methought but not for this	K3
In the old days did Jacob seek his bride	U2
Where art thou now O thou that sought'st me then	H
Where is thy loving tenderness of old	Z2
And where that fervency of faith to which	L3
Seven weary years were even as a few days	F3
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And Rachel wept and ended Ah my life	J2
Though Leah bear thee sons on sons methought	Z2
The child of love late born were worth them all	M3
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And Leah groaned and answered It is well	K
She that hath kept from me my husband's heart	Z2
Will set their father's soul against my sons	M
Yet also not she said I thought for this	K3
Not for the feverish nor the doating love	Q
Doth Israel father of a nation seek	N3
Nor to light dalliance as of boy and girl	O3
Incline the thoughts of matron and of man	H
Or lapse the wisdom of maturer mind	Z2
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And Leah ended Father of my sons	M
Come thou shalt dream of Rachel if thou wilt	Z2
So Leah fold thee in a wife's embrace	P3
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These are the words of Jacob's wives who sat	Z2
In the tent door and listened to their speech	Q3
The spring beside him and above the palm	R3
While all the sheep were gathered for the night	Z2

Arthur Hugh Clough

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