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MOTTO TO 'GIFTS' by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: GIFTS OF ONE WHO LOVED ME
Last Line: TIME THEY STOPPED FOR SHAME.
Subject(s): GIFTS & GIVING; LOVE - COMPLAINTS;
Gifts of one who loved me, --
'T was high time they came;
When he ceased to love me,
Time they stopped for shame.



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