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Son said my mother	A
When I was knee high	B
you've need of clothes to cover you	C
and not a rag have I	B
	-
There's nothing in the house	D
To make a boy breeches	D
Nor shears to cut a cloth with	E
Nor thread to take stitches	D
	-
There's nothing in the house	D
But a loaf end of rye	B
And a harp with a woman's head	F
Nobody will buy	B
And she began to cry	B
	-
That was in the early fall	G
When came the late fall	G
Son she said the sight of you	C
Makes your mother's blood crawl mdash	H
	-
Little skinny shoulder blades	D
Sticking through your clothes	D
And where you'll get a jacket from	I
God above knows	D
	-
It's lucky for me lad	J
Your daddy's in the ground	K
And can't see the way I let	L
His son go around	K
And she made a queer sound	K
	-
That was in the late fall	G
When the winter came	M
I'd not a pair of breeches	D
Nor a shirt to my name	M
	-
I couldn't go to school	N
Or out of doors to play	O
And all the other little boys	D
Passed our way	O
	-
Son said my mother	A
Come climb into my lap	P
And I'll chafe your little bones	D
While you take a nap	P
	-
And oh but we were silly	Q
For half and hour or more	R
Me with my long legs	D
Dragging on the floor	R
	-
A rock rock rocking	S
To a mother goose rhyme	T
Oh but we were happy	Q
For half an hour's time	T
	-
But there was I a great boy	U
And what would folks say	O
To hear my mother singing me	Q
To sleep all day	O
In such a daft way	O
	-
Men say the winter	A
Was bad that year	V
Fuel was scarce	D
And food was dear	V
	-
A wind with a wolf's head	F
Howled about our door	R
And we burned up the chairs	D
And sat upon the floor	R
	-
All that was left us	D
Was a chair we couldn't break	W
And the harp with a woman's head	F
Nobody would take	W
For song or pity's sake	W
	-
The night before Christmas	D
I cried with cold	X
I cried myself to sleep	Y
Like a two year old	X
	-
And in the deep night	Z
I felt my mother rise	D
And stare down upon me	Q
With love in her eyes	D
	-
I saw my mother sitting	S
On the one good chair	A2
A light falling on her	A
From I couldn't tell where	A2
	-
Looking nineteen	B2
And not a day older	A
And the harp with a woman's head	F
Leaned against her shoulder	A
	-
Her thin fingers moving	S
In the thin tall strings	D
Were weav weav weaving	S
Wonderful things	D
	-
Many bright threads	D
From where I couldn't see	Q
Were running through the harp strings	D
Rapidly	Q
	-
And gold threads whistling	S
Through my mother's hand	C2
I saw the web grow	D2
And the pattern expand	C2
	-
She wove a child's jacket	E2
And when it was done	F2
She laid it on the floor	R
And wove another one	F2
	-
She wove a red cloak	G2
So regal to see	Q
She's made it for a king's son	F2
I said and not for me	Q
But I knew it was for me	Q
	-
She wove a pair of breeches	Q
Quicker than that	H2
She wove a pair of boots	Q
And a little cocked hat	H2
	-
She wove a pair of mittens	Q
Shw wove a little blouse	Q
She wove all night	Z
In the still cold house	Q
	-
She sang as she worked	I2
And the harp strings spoke	G2
Her voice never faltered	J2
And the thread never broke	G2
And when I awoke mdash	H
	-
There sat my mother	A
With the harp against her shoulder	A
Looking nineteeen	F2
And not a day older	A
	-
A smile about her lips	Q
And a light about her head	F
And her hands in the harp strings	Q
Frozen dead	F
	-
And piled beside her	A
And toppling to the skies	Q
Were the clothes of a king's son	F2
Just my size	Q

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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