| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | She Just Keeps House for Me | | By Jean Blewett (1862–1934) |
| | | SHE is so winsome and so wise | |
| She sways us at her will, | |
| And oft the question will arise, | |
| What mission does she fill? | |
| And so I say with pride untold, | 5 |
| And love beyond degree, | |
| This woman with the heart of gold, | |
| She just keeps house for me— | |
| For me,— | |
| She just keeps house for me. | 10 |
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| A full content dwells in her face, | |
| She ’s quite in love with life, | |
| And for a title, wears with grace | |
| The sweet, old-fashioned ‘Wife’; | |
| And so I say with pride untold, | 15 |
| And love beyond degree, | |
| This woman with the heart of gold | |
| She just keeps house for me— | |
| For me,— | |
| She just keeps house for me. | 20 |
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| What though I toil from morn till night, | |
| What though I weary grow, | |
| A spring of love and dear delight | |
| Doth ever softly flow; | |
| And so I say with pride untold, | 25 |
| And love beyond degree, | |
| The woman with the heart of gold | |
| She just keeps house for me. | |
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| Our children climb upon her knee | |
| And lie upon her breast, | 30 |
| And ah! her mission seems to me | |
| The highest and the best; | |
| And so I say with pride untold, | |
| And love beyond degree, | |
| This woman with the heart of gold | 35 |
| She just keeps house for me. | | | | |
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