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In The Womb

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Still rests the heavy share on the dark soil:     Upon the black mould thick the dew-damp lies:     The horse waits patient: from his lowly toil     The ploughboy to the morning lifts his eyes.     The unbudding hedgerows dark against day's fires     Glitter with gold-lit crystals: on the rim     Over the unregarding city's spires     The lonely beauty shines alone for him.     And day by day the dawn or dark enfolds     And feeds with beauty eyes that cannot see     How in her womb the mighty mother moulds     The infant spirit for eternity.

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