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LIMITS by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHO KNOWS THIS OR THAT
Last Line: IS CRUELTY TO THY CRUELTY.
Subject(s): RATS;

Who knows this or that
Hark in the wall to the rat
Since the world was, he has gnawed;
Of his wisdom of his fraud
What dost thou know
In the wretched little beast
Is life & heart
Child & parent
Not without relation
To fruitful field & sun & moon
What art thou? his wicked eye
Is cruelty to thy cruelty.



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