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TO PLAY ALONE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: A TOM TIT CLINGING UPSIDE DOWN
Last Line: WILL TEACH ME HOW TO PLAY ALONE?
Subject(s): SOLITUDE; LONELINESS;
A Tom Tit clinging upside down,
Needs nothing more to raise his wonder;
A lonely Trout will play until
His own deep whirlpool sucks him under.

So when my money all is spent,
And all my merry friends are gone –
What little Tom Tit, Trout, or Child,
Will teach me how to play alone?



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