The Mind

The Impartial Giver

by Hazel Hall 1886–1924

From Curtains (1921)

The Mind

I who have spent my hands in futile weaving,
And you who flung yours out before the sun,
For all you held, for all my restless grieving,
What have you, more than I have, really won?

My industry has faltered; through your fingers
Your sunlight sifts like finely running sands;
And Time shall bring us, when the last star lingers,
A cross to hold, made of our humbled hands.

MLA

Hall, Hazel. “The Impartial Giver.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hall_h/46/.

Chicago

Hall, Hazel. “The Impartial Giver.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hall_h/46/.

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