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I bought a dishmop -- / having no daughter -- / for they had twisted / fine ribbons of shining copper / about white twine / and made a towsled head / of it, fastened it / upon a turned ash stick / slender at the neck / straight, tall -- / when tied upright / on the brass wallbracket / to be a light for me -- / and naked, / as a girl should seem / to her father.