all the anguish and all the love combined. He's using the word "offices" in the religious sense, sacred responsibilities such as that of a vicar or priest. And they are "austere"--it's a plain and hard life here. Yet the father has done what he could.[by Robert Hayden]
Those Winter Sundays
from Fleda Brown: Traverse City Record-Eagle: On Poetry: Non-Hallmark words for father
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