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Life is so weary commonplace! Too fair / Were those young visions of the poet and seer. / Nothing exciting ever happens here. / Just eat and drink, and dress and chat; / Life is so tedious, slow, and flat, / And every day alike in everywhere!
Birth comes. Birth- / The breathing re-creation of the earth! / All earth, all sky, all God, life's deep sweet whole, / Newborn again to each new soul! / "Oh, are you? What a shame! Too bad, my dear! / How well you stand it, too! It's very queer / The dreadful trials women have to carry; / But you can't always help it when you marry. / Oh, what a sweet layette! What lovely socks! / What an exquisite puff and powder box! / Who is your doctor? Yes, his skill's immense- / But it's a dreadful danger and expense!"