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THE RABBIT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: NOT EVEN WHEN THE EARLY BIRDS
Last Line: TO KILL HIM IN THE MORNING LIGHT.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; RABBITS; HARES;
Not even when the early birds
Danced on my roof with showery feet
Such music as will come from rain --
Not even then could I forget
The rabbit in his hours of pain;
Where, lying in an iron trap,
He cries all through the deafened night --
Until his smiling murderer comes,
To kill him in the morning light.



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