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Women have no wilderness in them
They are provident instead
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread.

Source: Women.
-- Louise A Bogan, (Aug 11 1897-1970), US lyric poet, critic; She wrote Body of This Death, 1923; A Poet's Alphabet, 1970.

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