Beggar Maid

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    But the beggar gazes on calamity
    And thereafter he belongs to it, to bread
    Hard found, and water tasting of misery.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    No more but e’en a woman, and commanded
    By such poor passion as the maid that milks
    And does the meanest chares.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)