Living
Jump-to-Glory Jane: XIV
From Poems — Volume 3
Living
The tightness of a hempen rope
Their bodies got; but laundry soap
Not handsomer can rub the skin
For token of the washed within.
Occasionally coughers cast
A leg aloft and coughed their last.
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MLA
Meredith, George. “Jump-to-Glory Jane: XIV.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meredith/172/.
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Meredith, George. “Jump-to-Glory Jane: XIV.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meredith/172/.
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