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We were a baker's dozen in the house six women and six men	A
Besides myself and all of us had known	B
Those benefits supposed to come from school and church and brush and pen	A
And opportunities of being thrown	B
In contact with the cultured and the gifted people of the day	C
Being the thirteenth one among six pairs	D
I deemed it wise to keep apart and let the others have their say	C
And from my vantage place upon the stairs	D
Or in a corner where I seemed to read I listened for some word	E
That would make life seem sweeter or cast light	F
Upon the goal toward which all footsteps wend and this was what I heard	E
Throughout each day and half of every night	F
The men talked business politics and trade	G
They told of safe investments and great chances	H
For speculation One man who had made	G
Pleasure his art described the newest dances	H
And dwelt upon each chasse glide and whirl	I
As lovers dwell upon the charms of some fair girl	I
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They talked of war and tried to find its cause	J
And quite deplored the fact that wars must come	K
But since this desperate condition was	J
They carefully computed what the sum	K
Of profit might be to a land of peace	L
And wondered if times would be harder should war cease	L
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They spoke of games and sports told many a story	M
That made the listeners laugh then back from these	N
Always they harked to money or the gory	M
And savage drama playing overseas	N
Then there were tales from club and smoking room	O
The submarines of gossip bringing some name doom	O
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The women talked of fashions and of plays	P
But more of players and their private lives	Q
Related tittle tattle of their words and ways	P
Their lightning change of husbands and of wives	R
And there was chat of garments and their price	S
Of operas and balls and all that gives life spice	S
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Some talk there was of music pictures books	T
But of musicians painters authors more	U
The way they lived their methods and their looks	T
The colour of their eyes the clothes they wore	U
And whether it was true as had been stated	V
That gifted people were quite sure to be mis mated	W
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They talked of servants menus and disease	N
And operations Each one came in line	X
With some astounding tale to tell of these	N
And of her surgeon's skill which seemed divine	X
But of that vast Domain where live our dead	Y
And where we all are hurrying no word was said	Y
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When we know that goal awaits each one of us a little farther on	Z
When we know how an ever increasing company of friends is gathered there	A2
Why do we not speak of it in our daily conversation	B2
Why do we not familiarise our minds with thoughts of worlds unseen	C2
There are many beautiful things to be learned of that country	M
There are sacred books of great travellers whose souls have cried 'Hail across the border'	M
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There are truths which have been learned in visions and by revelations	D2
All the revelations were not given to St John alone	B
All the wise men of the world did not die two thousand years ago	E2
Why do we not talk of these eternal truths	F2
Instead of wasting all our words on the evanesent the ever	M
changing the trivial and the unimportant	G2
There is but one important theme and that is Life Immortal	H2

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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