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POISON by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN THIS STRANGE WORLD SPEAKS ILL OF ME
Last Line: TILL EVERY TONGUE GROWS SWEET AND KIND.
Subject(s): EVIL; ILL-TEMPERED;
When this strange world speaks ill of me,
With tongues of poison, and unkind –
What can I do but seek the poor,
And leave my silver mark behind?

When I, a silent stranger, make
Them wonder if Christ comes again –
Have I not found a shilling cure,
When suffering from a poisoned brain?

One silver shilling, white and clean,
Left with a poor man, old or blind –
And here I stand, all poison-proof,
Till every tongue grows sweet and kind.



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