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1876–1944

LEAVEN

Helen Hay Whitney

Others furnish bread and meat, Busy hucksters on the street, They will give you what you need, All the facts your life to feed.

Mine are not these wares of earth, I can give my love but mirth; Let, oh let this part be mine, I would be your salt and wine.

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