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    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE TEI.2 PUBLIC "-//TEI P4//DTD Main DTD Driver File//EN" "http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/DTD/teixlite.dtd"> <TEI.

    2> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Morning Song</title> <author>Silvia Plath</author> <respStmt> <resp>Originally prepared by</resp> <name>Silvia Plath</name> </respStmt> <respStmt> <resp>Restored and reinstated</resp> <name>Harper Collins</name> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <distributor>Harper Collins</distributor> <address> <addrLine>New York, New York, USA</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>available on a commercial basis</p> </availability> <date>2004</date> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <bibl>Ariel, the restored edition, prepared by Harper Collins (a facsimile of Plath's manuscript, reinstating her original selection and arrangement, forward by Frieda Hughes</bibl> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div type="poem"> <head> <title>Morning Song</title> </head> <lg n="1"> <l n="1">Love set you going like a fat gold watch</l> <l n="2">The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry</l> <l n="3">Took its place among the elements</l> </lg> <lg n="2"> <l n="1">Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival.

    New statue</l> <l n="2">In a drafty museum, your nakedness</l> <l n="3">Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.</l> </lg> <lg n="3"> <l n="1">I'm no more your mother</l> <l n="2">Than the cloud that distils a mirror to reflect its own slow</l> <l n="3">Effacement at the wind's hand.</l> </lg>

    <lg n="4"> <l n="1">All night your moth-breath</l> <l n="2">Flinkers among the flat pink roses. wake to listen:</l> <l n="3">A far sea moves in my ear</l> </lg>

    <lg n="5"> <l n="1">One cry and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral</l> <l n="2">In my Victorian nightgown.</l> <l n="3">Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square</l> </lg>

    <lg n="6"> <l n="1">Whitens and shallows its dull stars. And now you try</l> <l n="2">Your handful of notes;</l> <l n="3">The clear vowels rise like balloons</l> </lg> </div> </body> </text> </TEI.2>

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