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THE RABBIT by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN THEY SAID THE TIME TO HIDE WAS MINE
Last Line: AND I LOOKED BACK VERY HARD AT HIM.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; RABBITS; HARES;

When they said the time to hide was mine,
I hid back under a thick grape vine.

And while I was still for the time to pass,
A little gray thing came out of the grass.

He hopped his way through the melon bed
And sat down close by a cabbage head.

He sat down close where I could see,
And his big still eyes looked hard at me,

His big eyes bursting out of the rim,
And I looked back very hard at him.



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