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An Ancient Gesture
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: Penelope did this too And more than once: you can't keep weaving all day And undoing it all through the night; Your arms get tired, and the back of your neck gets tight; And along towards morning, when you think it will never be light And your husband has been gone, and you don't know where, for years Suddenly you burst into tears; There is simply nothing else to do And I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: This is an ancient gesture, authentic, antique In the vеry best tradition, classic, Greek; Ulysses did this too But only as a gesturе,—a gesture which implied To the assembled throng that he was much too moved to speak He learned it from Penelope… Penelope, who really cried
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