TO A POST-OFFICE INKWELL

by: Christopher Morley (1890-1957)

      OW many humble hearts have dipped
      In you, and scrawled their manuscript!
      Have shared their secrets, told their cares,
      Their curious and quaint affairs!
       
      Your pool of ink, your scratchy pen,
      Have moved the lives of unborn men,
      And watched young people, breathing hard,
      Put Heaven on a postal card.

"To a Post-Office Inkwell" is reprinted from Modern American Poetry. Ed. Louis Untermeyer. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1919.

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