Time & Brevity
The Time-Brood
From Child Verse (1900)
Time & Brevity
I wonder how the mother-Hour
Can feed each hungry Minute,
And see that every one of them
Gets sixty seconds in it;
And whether, when she goes abroad,
She knows which ones attend her;
For all of them are just alike
In age and size and gender.
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MLA
Tabb, John Banister. “The Time-Brood.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/44/.
Chicago
Tabb, John Banister. “The Time-Brood.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/44/.
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