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THE FUGITIVE by PRINGLE BARRET

First Line: I SAID, I WILL ESCAPE
Last Line: BUT PEACE STILL TARRIES, AND I WAIT ALONE.
Subject(s): SOLITUDE; WELLESLEY COLLEGE; LONELINESS;
I SAID, "I will escape
This stricken world of futile little men,
I will seek peace." And then
I set my hands to shape
Four walls of clay
To shield my soul in silence from the day,
And fashioned for my door a graven stone.
But peace still tarries, and I wait alone.



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