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KISS AND BLOW by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: HE TAKES THAT WOMAN WITH HIS KISS
Last Line: HOW KIND AND CRUEL, HOW CLEVER IS DEATH!
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
He takes that woman with his kiss,
Yet strikes her man a heavy blow:
Would she have gone off smiling so
For any other Power that's known –
If she had seen the cruel blow
That struck her man and lover down?
A blow and a kiss, in a single breath –
How kind and cruel, how clever is Death!



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