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She stood against the kitchen sink and looked	A
Over the sink out through a dusty window	B
At weeds the water from the sink made tall	C
She wore her cape her hat was in her hand	D
Behind her was confusion in the room	E
Of chairs turned upside down to sit like people	F
In other chairs and something come to look	G
For every room a house has parlor bed room	E
And dining room thrown pell mell in the kitchen	H
And now and then a smudged infernal face	I
Looked in a door behind her and addressed	J
Her back She always answered without turning	K
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Where will I put this walnut bureau lady	L
Put it on top of something that's on top	M
Of something else she laughed Oh put it where	N
You can to night and go It's almost dark	O
You must be getting started back to town	P
Another blackened face thrust in and looked	A
And smiled and when she did not turn spoke gently	L
What are you seeing out the window lady	L
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Never was I beladied so before	Q
Would evidence of having been called lady	L
More than so many times make me a lady	L
In common law I wonder	R
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But I ask	S
What are you seeing out the window lady	L
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What I'll be seeing more of in the years	T
To come as here I stand and go the round	U
Of many plates with towels many times	V
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And what is that You only put me off	W
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Rank weeds that love the water from the dish pan	X
More than some women like the dish pan Joe	B
A little stretch of mowing field for you	Y
Not much of that until I come to woods	Z
That end all And it's scarce enough to call	C
A view	Y
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And yet you think you like it dear	A2
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That's what you're so concerned to know You hope	B2
I like it Bang goes something big away	C2
Off there upstairs The very tread of men	D2
As great as those is shattering to the frame	E2
Of such a little house Once left alone	F2
You and I dear will go with softer steps	G2
Up and down stairs and through the rooms and none	H
But sudden winds that snatch them from our hands	H2
Will ever slam the doors	I2
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I think you see	L
More than you like to own to out that window	B
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No for besides the things I tell you of	J2
I only see the years They come and go	B
In alternation with the weeds the field	K2
The wood	L2
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What kind of years	T
Why latter years	T
Different from early years	T
I see them too	Y
You didn't count them	M2
No the further off	W
So ran together that I didn't try to	Y
It can scarce be that they would be in number	R
We'd care to know for we are not young now	N2
And bang goes something else away off there	N
It sounds as if it were the men went down	P
And every crash meant one less to return	O2
To lighted city streets we too have known	F2
But now are giving up for country darkness	P2
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Come from that window where you see too much for me	L
And take a livelier view of things from here	Q2
They're going Watch this husky swarming up	R2
Over the wheel into the sky high seat	S2
Lighting his pipe now squinting down his nose	T2
At the flame burning downward as he sucks it	U2
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See how it makes his nose side bright a proof	V2
How dark it's getting Can you tell what time	W2
It is by that Or by the moon The new moon	X2
What shoulder did I see her over Neither	R
A wire she is of silver as new as we	L
To everything Her light won't last us long	Y2
It's something though to know we're going to have her	R
Night after night and stronger every night	Z2
To see us through our first two weeks But Joe	B
The stove Before they go Knock on the window	B
Ask them to help you get it on its feet	S2
We stand here dreaming Hurry Call them back	A3
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They're not gone yet	B3
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We've got to have the stove	C3
Whatever else we want for And a light	Z2
Have we a piece of candle if the lamp	D3
And oil are buried out of reach	E3
Again	D2
The house was full of tramping and the dark	O
Door filling men burst in and seized the stove	C3
A cannon mouth like hole was in the wall	C
To which they set it true by eye and then	D2
Came up the jointed stovepipe in their hands	H2
So much too light and airy for their strength	F3
It almost seemed to come ballooning up	R2
Slipping from clumsy clutches toward the ceiling	K
A fit said one and banged a stovepipe shoulder	R
It's good luck when you move in to begin	G3
With good luck with your stovepipe Never mind	H3
It's not so bad in the country settled down	P
When people 're getting on in life You'll like it	U2
Joe said You big boys ought to find a farm	I3
And make good farmers and leave other fellows	T2
The city work to do There's not enough	J3
For everybody as it is in there	N
God one said wildly and when no one spoke	K3
Say that to Jimmy here He needs a farm	I3
But Jimmy only made his jaw recede	L3
Fool like and rolled his eyes as if to say	C2
He saw himself a farmer Then there was a French boy	M3
Who said with seriousness that made them laugh	N3
Ma friend you ain't know what it is you're ask	S
He doffed his cap and held it with both hands	H2
Across his chest to make as 'twere a bow	N2
We're giving you our chances on de farm	I3
And then they all turned to with deafening boots	O3
And put each other bodily out of the house	P3
Goodby to them We puzzle them They think	Q3
I don't know what they think we see in what	R3
They leave us to that pasture slope that seems	S3
The back some farm presents us and your woods	Z
To northward from your window at the sink	Q3
Waiting to steal a step on us whenever	R
We drop our eyes or turn to other things	T3
As in the game 'Ten step' the children play	C2
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Good boys they seemed and let them love the city	L
All they could say was 'God ' when you proposed	U3
Their coming out and making useful farmers	V3
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Did they make something lonesome go through you	Y
It would take more than them to sicken you	Y
Us of our bargain But they left us so	B
As to our fate like fools past reasoning with	W3
They almost shook me	L
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It's all so much	X3
What we have always wanted I confess	Y3
It's seeming bad for a moment makes it seem	Z3
Even worse still and so on down down down	P
It's nothing it's their leaving us at dusk	A4
I never bore it well when people went	B4
The first night after guests have gone the house	P3
Seems haunted or exposed I always take	C4
A personal interest in the locking up	R2
At bedtime but the strangeness soon wears off	W
He fetched a dingy lantern from behind	H3
A door There's that we didn't lose And these	D4
Some matches he unpocketed For food	E4
The meals we've had no one can take from us	P2
I wish that everything on earth were just	F4
As certain as the meals we've had I wish	G4
The meals we haven't had were anyway	C2
What have you you know where to lay your hands on	H4
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The bread we bought in passing at the store	Q
There's butter somewhere too	Y
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Let's rend the bread	I4
I'll light the fire for company for you	Y
You'll not have any other company	L
Till Ed begins to get out on a Sunday	C2
To look us over and give us his idea	J4
Of what wants pruning shingling breaking up	R2
He'll know what he would do if he were we	L
And all at once He'll plan for us and plan	X
To help us but he'll take it out in planning	K
Well you can set the table with the loaf	K4
Let's see you find your loaf I'll light the fire	R
I like chairs occupying other chairs	L4
Not offering a lady	L
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There again Joe	B
You're tired	M4
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I'm drunk nonsensical tired out	N4
Don't mind a word I say It's a day's work	O4
To empty one house of all household goods	Z
And fill another with 'em fifteen miles away	C2
Although you do no more than dump them down	P
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Dumped down in paradise we are and happy	L
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It's all so much what I have always wanted	P4
I can't believe it's what you wanted too	Y
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Shouldn't you like to know	B
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I'd like to know	B
If it is what you wanted then how much	X3
You wanted it for me	L
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A troubled conscience	Q4
You don't want me to tell if I don't know	B
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I don't want to find out what can't be known	F2
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But who first said the word to come	R4
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My dear	A2
It's who first thought the thought You're searching Joe	B
For things that don't exist I mean beginnings	T3
Ends and beginnings there are no such things	T3
There are only middles	T3
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What is this	T3
This life	S4
Our sitting here by lantern light together	R
Amid the wreckage of a former home	T4
You won't deny the lantern isn't new	Y
The stove is not and you are not to me	L
Nor I to you	Y
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Perhaps you never were	R
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It would take me forever to recite	Z2
All that's not new in where we find ourselves	T3
New is a word for fools in towns who think	Q3
Style upon style in dress and thought at last	U4
Must get somewhere I've heard you say as much	X3
No this is no beginning	K
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Then an end	V4
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End is a gloomy word	M4
Is it too late	W4
To drag you out for just a good night call	C
On the old peach trees on the knoll to grope	B2
By starlight in the grass for a last peach	E3
The neighbors may not have taken as their right	Z2
When the house wasn't lived in I've been looking	K
I doubt if they have left us many grapes	T3
Before we set ourselves to right the house	T3
The first thing in the morning out we go	B
To go the round of apple cherry peach	E3
Pine alder pasture mowing well and brook	G
All of a farm it is	T3
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I know this much	X3
I'm going to put you in your bed if first	X4
I have to make you build it Come the light	Z2
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When there was no more lantern in the kitchen	H
The fire got out through crannies in the stove	C3
And danced in yellow wrigglers on the ceiling	K
As much at home as if they'd always danced there	N