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RESPONSIBILITY by JOHN DRINKWATER

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU PLOUGHMAN AT THE GATE
Last Line: NOT BEAUTY, BUT THE FLAW.

YOU ploughman at the gate,
All that you are for me
Is of my mind create,
And in my brain to be
A figure newly won
From the world's confusion.

And if you are of grace,
That's honesty for me,
And if of evil face,
Recorded then shall be
Dishonour that I saw
Not beauty, but the flaw.



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