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Happy Birthday To You! – Sylvia Plath
[Homemade birthday card, 1957, from Letters Home]

“There was an invincible mother
(I defy you to show me another!)
Who in some magic way
Grew younger each day
And never found birthdays a bother. 

Her feats are too great to be reckoned:
One summer the continent beckoned:
She mastered a car,
Said: ‘Big Ben’s not so far!’
And whiz! she was there in a second.

Gay Paree and much vin did not wearia;
She thought Rembrandt’s exhibit superia;
From bottom to top
Of the Alps she did hop—
Next year she’ll be conquering Siberia! 

At the green age of fifty-one, this is
A health to our venturesome missis!
May her next fifty springs
Bring new joys and jauntings!
From S & T here is love, hugs and kisses!