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FORGIVENESS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: STUNG BY A SPITEFUL WASP
Last Line: MORE DIFFERENCE.
Subject(s): FORGIVENESS; CLEMENCY;
STUNG by a spiteful wasp,
I let him go life free:
That proved the difference
In him and me.

For, had I killed my foe,
It had proved me at once
The stronger wasp, and no
More difference.



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