Copyright © 1976, 1980 by Joan Silber

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From “The Night Will Never Stay” from Eleanor Farjeon’s Poems for Children by Eleanor Farjeon. Copyright 1951 by Eleanor Farjeon. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

Portions of this work appeared in slightly different form in Mulch (September 1976).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Silber, Joan.
Household words.
I. Title.
PZ4.S571Ho [PS3569.1414]     813'.5'4 79–14742

ISBN: 978-0-393-07071-2

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