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DUST by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF LIFE IS DUST, IS NOT DUST LIFE?
Last Line: DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS AS LIVING DUST!
Subject(s): DUST;
If Life is dust, is not dust Life?
We're walking on the backs of living things;
On things that live we sleep.
I kick a stone that -- were its life released --
Could in its fury leap
Into my face and be a frantic beast.
What things lie sleeping all around,
That may awake at last
And, joining in our mortal strife,
Defend their rights as living dust!



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