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CONFESSION by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: ONE HOUR IN EVERY HUNDRED HOURS
Last Line: IN SONGS OF CHILDHOOD, FLOWERS AND BIRDS.
ONE hour in every hundred hours
I sing of childhood, birds and flowers;
Who reads my character in song
Will not see much in me that's wrong.

But in my ninety hours and nine
I would not tell what thoughts are mine:
They're not so pure as find their words
In songs of childhood, flowers and birds.



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