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THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THEY ARE NOT THOSE WHO USED TO FEED US
Last Line: WHEN WE WERE YOUNG - THEY CANNOT BE!
Subject(s): BIRDS;
THEY are not those who used to feed us
When we were young - they cannot be -
These shapes that now bereave and bleed us?
They are not those who used to feed us,
For did we then cry, they would heed us.
- If hearts can house such treachery
They are not those who used to feed us
When we were young - they cannot be!



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