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LOVE TEN YEARS OLD by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: OUR LOVE THIS DAY IS TEN YEARS OLD
Last Line: AND KNOWS THE MAN IS OLD AND BLIND!
Subject(s): LOVE - NATURE OF; OLD AGE;

Our love this day is ten years old.
What thoughts are in my sweetheart's mind?
'A kinder, sweeter tempered man,'
Says she, 'no woman could ever find.'

What says the World, that knows me less,
And judged me of another kind —
That robs a poor man of his dog,
And knows the man is old and blind!



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