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  • Aunt Mattie bent a thousand times down the long black rows
  • Then battled with the angry weeds so little seeds could grow
  • Come summer Mattie pulled the snow from cruel and cutting bolls
  • She was patient pale and slender and was only eight years old
  • Round 'n round the spinning wheel beneath Aunt Mattie's boot
  • She recalled the soil and cotton seeds and summer's hopeful shoots
  • Two winters spun out summer's threads in rich and creamy folds
  • And she had a bolt of cotton cloth when she turned ten years old
  • If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds
  • If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs
  • If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl
  • We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world
  • Indigo and lavender made up Aunt Mattie's sky
  • Remembering her childhood days she made the rustic dye
  • The hour before the day would end it fed young Mattie's dream
  • She made indigo and lavender when she turned just fourteen
  • If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds
  • If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs
  • If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl
  • We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world
  • Aunt Mattie bends a thousand times down each patchwork row
  • Piece by piece and stitch by stitch in fading candle glow
  • The valley of the shadow cannot call her from her seams
  • Until finishing her lifetime's work she dies at seventeen
  • If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds
  • If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs
  • If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl
  • We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world

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