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EPIGRAM ON ONE BORN BLIND, AND SO DEAD by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHO (BUT SOME ONE LIKE THEE) COULD EVER SAY
Last Line: GIVES THEE A LONGER TILL THE DAY OF DOOM.
Subject(s): BLINDNESS; VISUALLY HANDICAPPED;
WHO (but some one like thee) could ever say,
He master'd Death from robbing him a day?
Or was Death ever yet so kind to any?
One night she took from thee, from others many,
And yet, to recompense it, in thy tomb
Gives thee a longer till the day of doom.



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