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ON THE ENGRAVER OF HIS PORTRAIT by JOHN MILTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOOK ON MYSELF, AND THOU SHALT OWN AT ONCE
Last Line: LAUGH. WOULD YE THINK IT? HE INTENDED ME!
Subject(s): PORTRAITS;
Look on myself, and thou shalt own at once
This Copy of me taken by a Dunce;
My Friends, who gaze and guess not whom ye see,
Laugh. Would ye think it? He intended me!



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