A Good wife rose from her bed one morn,
  And thought, with a nervous dread,
Of the piles of clothes to be washed, and more
  Than a dozen mouths to be fed.
“There ’s the meals to get for the men in the field,
  And the children to fix away
To school, and the milk to be skimmed and churned;
  And all to be done this day.”

It had...