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JOY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE'S NOTHING CERTAIN, NOTHING SURE
Last Line: SOME MOMENTS RARE AND RAPTURE-KIST
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; JOY; DELIGHT;

There's nothing certain, nothing sure
Save sorrow. Fragile happiness
Was never fashioned to endure;
For joy repels the perfect claim
And answers to no certain name;
How furtively we scan the mist
Perchance amid the gloom to find
Some moments rare and rapture-kist



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