Nursing the Master’s Children
Nursing the Master’s Children
I nursed the Master’s children mine / And left
crying the Master’s children mine to nurse the Master’s children kept
Me pregnant was the only work he did
And don’t need to feel anything for it
to keep a crying thing alive
I felt my milk going out
relieved / And sick like
As if the Master if he ever had had
fed me from his own plate
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