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THE TUGGED HAND by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: I HAVE NO EARS OR EYES
Last Line: AND COULD NOT MAKE IT PLAY.
Subject(s): DEATH; SYMPATHY; DEAD, THE; EMPATHY;
I have no ears or eyes
For either bird or flower;
Music and lovely blooms
Must bide their lighter hour;
So let them wait awhile —
For yet another day

Till I at last forget
The woman lying dead;
And how a lonely child
Came to his mother's bed
And tugged at her cold hand —
And could not make it play.



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