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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RUSTIC PARADOX, by ROSEMARY FARRAR
First Line: Most tolerant of men, my neighbor
Last Line: Another's thoughts are bent.
Subject(s): Thought; Thinking
First Line: Most tolerant of men, my neighbor
Last Line: Another's thoughts are bent.
Subject(s): Thought; Thinking
Most tolerant of men, my neighbor
Thinks that every side
Of any situation should
Be opened clear and wide.
He pushes back his spectacles,
Pulls on his trusty pipe,
Looks at his shoes, and says he thinks
That now the time is ripe
For hearing every man's opinion.
"Can't no harm be done,"
He says, "in hearing all ideas;
Now just take me, for one --"
He weights the gentle air with words.
He never will relent
For long enough to glimpse the way
Another's thoughts are bent.
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