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Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.

Source: Those Winter Sundays, A Ballad of Remembrance, 1962.
-- Robert Hayden, (Aug 4 1913-1980), US educator, poet; He taught at Fisk University for twenty-two years; elected to the American Academy of Poets, 1975; poetry consultant to the Library of Congress.

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