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THREE SCORE YEARS I LIVED by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THREE SCORE YEARS I LIVED; AND THEN
Last Line: HENCE, THIS UNUTTERABLE DARKE.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;

Three score years I lived; and then
Looked for to live another ten.
But he who from the Hale and Quick
Robs the pure Oile that feeds the Wick
Chanced my enfeebled frame to mark --
Hence, this unutterable Darke.



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