Excerpt from Devious Ways
To B. H.
(For a most important birthday.)
I gave the child an elephant,
The girl a silver bird,
I give the woman all I have -
My soul writ word by word.
I take the moon from out the sky
To make a present rare;
I take a handful of the stars
And bind them in your hair.
My heart must be most queerly made -
I think I must have two;
For one I give to my good wife,
And one I give to you.
For each man loves what he has made,
And I made you divine -
The woman is for all the world,
The child is always mine.
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