By Sarah Teasdale
Submitted by Just Some Girl
Date: 2002 Jan 08
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Duty

Fool, do not beat the air
With miserable hands--
The wrong is done, the seed is sown,
The evil stands.
                                  
Your duty is to draw
Out of the web of wrong,
Out of ill-woven deeds,
A thread of song.