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LET ME NOT HATE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE'S NOTHING CERTAIN, NOTHING SURE
Last Line: ON DOWN THE WORLD'S GRIM NIGHT!
Subject(s): HATE;
Let me not hate, although the bruising world decries my peace,
Gives me no quarter, hounds me while I sleep;
Would snuff the candles of my soul and sear my inmost dreamings.

Let me not hate, though girt by vipers, green and hissing through the dark;
I fain must love. God help me keep the altar-gleams that flicker wearily, anon,
On down the world's grim night!



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