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Show oooooooooocoooooooooooooooo 0 0 0 A VAIN LONGING 0 I o 0 1 0 By Ted Robinson. o 0 0 I 0 I'd love to be a housewife ! I would love to spend 0 H 0 my day o I 0 In a cozy little kitchen while the moments sped 0 I 0 away! o I 0 With the nicey, spicy odors, homey, and yet sharp O I 0 and strange, o M 0 And the genial warmth proceeding from the cun- O M 0 ning little range; o m 0 With the mysteries of cooking and the knowledge O 0 of the power o g 0 To turn out a fresh creation of one's genius ev- 0 I 0 eryhour; o I 0 Oh, the drudgery of rhyming is a tame and O I 0 thankless thing O 0 I should love to be a housewife that my very soul 0 0 might sing! O 0 0 0 I'd love to be a housewife! Making beds and 0 0 sweeping floors 0 0 Washing windows, if I chanced to need some ex- 0 O ercise outdoors; 0 O Ne'r a fear of boss or foreman with its constant 0 s O prodding pain; 0 O Just the simple round of duty, with the mind at 0 O perfect rest. 0 O Thinking thoughts of love and beauty free, and 0 O giving forth its best; 0 O Oh, the world with all its worries is a falsehood O O and a snare 0 O And I fain would be a housewife, free from every 0 O earthly care! ' 0 O .. .0 O Would that I had been a housewife ! Naught an- 0 O noys her, year by year, O O But the tinner and the plumber when the bath- O O room's out of gear, ' O O And the grocer and the garbage and the babies 0 O and the rugs, 0 O And the garden and the furnace and the roaches 0 O and the bugs, 0 O And the neighbors with their gossip and the ice- 0 O man with his dirt, O O And a slouchy, grouchy husband with the but- 0 O tons off his shirt 0 O Oh, it's fine to be a housewife, sheltered from 0 O the madding mob, 0 O (But the man that digs a sewer has a sweeter, 0 O easier job.) 0 O O O Cleveland Pain Dealer. 0 Vi O 0 OOOOOOOOO CO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |