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THE LAST MAN: A RUFFIAN by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE'S A FELLOW
Last Line: LIKE ROOTS, WITH POINTED NAILS.—HE IS THE MAN.
Subject(s): MEN;

THERE'S a fellow
With twisting root-like hair up to his eyes,
And they are streaked with red and starting out
Under their bristling brows; his crooked tusks
Part, like a hungry wolf's, his cursing mouth;
His head is frontless, and a swinish mane
Grows o'er his shoulders:—brown and warty hands,
Like roots, with pointed nails.—He is the man.



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