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A BOY by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: OUT OF THE NOISE OF TIRED PEOPLE WORKING,
Subject(s): BOYS; BEAUTY; WAR; GOD;
OUT of the noise of tired people working,
Harried with thoughts of war and lists of dead,
His beauty met me like a fresh wind blowing,
Clean boyish beauty and high-held head.
Eyes that told secrets, lips that would not tell them,
Fearless and shy the young unwearied eyes-
Men die by millions now, because God blunders,
Yet to have made this boy he must be wise



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