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SHADOWS by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH

Poet Analysis

First Line: AS I WALKED OUT ON HALLOWS' E'EN
Last Line: AND I HAVE A MOLE WHERE HIS HEART BLED.'
Subject(s): DECEPTION; UNFAITHFULNESS; INFIDELITY; ADULTERY; INCONSTANCY;
As I walked out on Hallows' E'en,
I saw the moon swing thin and green;
I saw beside, in Fiddler's Wynd,
Two hands that moved upon a blind.

As I walked out on Martin's Feast,
I heard a woman say to a priest—
'His grave is digged, his shroud is sewn;
And the child shall pass for his very own.'

But whiles they stood beside his tomb,
I heard the babe laugh out in her womb—
'My hair will be black as his was red,
And I have a mole where his heart bled.'



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