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TIT FOR TAT by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: I OFTEN PASS A GRACIOUS TREE
Last Line: QUITE PROBABLY YOU DON'T KNOW MINE.
Subject(s): ETIQUETTE; MANNERS; COURTESY;
I OFTEN pass a gracious tree
Whose name I can't identify,
But still I bow, in courtesy
It waves a bough, in kind reply.

I do not know your name, O tree
(Are you a hemlock or a pine?)
But why should that embarrass me?
Quite probably you don't know mine.



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