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BALLS by AMY LOWELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: THROW THE BLUE BALLS ABOVE THE TWIGS OF THE TREE-TOPS
Last Line: On top of the Methodist steeple?
Subject(s): BALLS; CONDUCT OF LIFE;
THROW the blue ball above the little twigs of the tree-tops,
And cast the yellow ball straight at the buzzing stars.

All our life is a flinging of colored balls
to impossible distances.
And in the end what have we?
A tired arm-a tip-tilted nose.

Ah! Well! Give me the purple one.
Wouldn't it be a fine thing if I could make it stick
On top of the Methodist steeple?



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