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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MORTALITY, by JESSIE A. MCGRIFF
First Line: If sin were only black as ink
Last Line: Dead right -- dead wrong -- dead slow!
Subject(s): Morality; Ethics
First Line: If sin were only black as ink
Last Line: Dead right -- dead wrong -- dead slow!
Subject(s): Morality; Ethics
If sin were only black as ink,
And virtue just as white as snow,
'Twould help us all a bit, I think,
To know the things we wish to know.
If wrong would only stay just wrong,
And never wear a strange disguise,
That travels, unrebuked, along
The road where right so often lies --
Perfection then our life would be,
As in a nice, straight line 'twould go,
Marked thus -- in signals plain to see:
Dead right -- dead wrong -- dead slow!
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