Telephone Operator
So many messageSof great import
Have passed her plugging fingers,
Hummed across her ears —
Hurry calls, death, danger, fears,
Anguish and love —
That she is like the rock
Where the sea breaks too often,
Each succeeding shock
Leaving it more smooth and flat and round.
She does not know the sound
Of Heaven, or Hell,
The place of bliss, or the place of those rejected.
Her only answer is, Doing well ,
Or if not well, at least, As well
As could have been expected.
Have passed her plugging fingers,
Hummed across her ears —
Hurry calls, death, danger, fears,
Anguish and love —
That she is like the rock
Where the sea breaks too often,
Each succeeding shock
Leaving it more smooth and flat and round.
She does not know the sound
Of Heaven, or Hell,
The place of bliss, or the place of those rejected.
Her only answer is, Doing well ,
Or if not well, at least, As well
As could have been expected.
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