Unmarried Mothers By Austin Clarke In the Convent of the Sacred Heart The Long Room has been decorated Where a Bishop can dine off golden plate As Oriental Potentate Girls, who will never wheel a go-cart Cook, sew, wash, dig,milk cows, clean stables And, twice a day, giving their babes The teat, herdlike, yield milk that cost Them dearly, when their skirts were tossed up Above their haunches. Hook or zip Has warded them at Castlepollard Luckier girls, on board a ship, Watch new hope spraying from the bollard
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