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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WORLD'S WAY, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: He wrote his soul into a book
Last Line: "behold, the world brought out his book!"
Subject(s): Books;rhyme;writing & Writers; Reading
First Line: He wrote his soul into a book
Last Line: "behold, the world brought out his book!"
Subject(s): Books;rhyme;writing & Writers; Reading
HE wrote his soul into a book.
The world refused to turn and look.
He made his faith into a rhyme,
And still the world could spare no time.
But on the day when, dumb and dazed,
Despair-condemned, and blind and crazed,
By means most weird his life he took,
Behold, the world brought out his book!
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