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EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT by THOMAS WYATT

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE FRUIT OF ALL THE SERVICE THAT I SERVE
Last Line: AMIDS MY HELP, AND HELPLESS DOTH REMAIN.
Subject(s): FRUIT; HUNGER; PAIN; TANTALUS (GREEK MYTHOLOGY); THIRST; SUFFERING; MISERY;

The fruit of all the service that I serve
Despair doth reap, such hapless hap have I.
But though he have no power to make me swerve,
Yet, by the fire, for cold I feel I die.
In paradise, for hunger still I sterve;
And, in the flood, for thirst to death I dry.
So Tantalus am I, and in worse pain
Amids my help, and helpless doth remain.



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