It Is Much

Women of night life amid the lights Where the line of your full, round throats Matches in gleam the glint of your eyes And the ring of your heart-deep laughter : It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.

Women of night life along the shadows, Lean at your throats and skulking the walls. Gaunt as a bitch worn to the bone, Under the paint of your smiling faces : It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.