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FANNY MEADOWS by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: ONE, TWO, THREE'
Last Line: AND -- OUT GOES SHE!'
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;
'One, two, three' --
O, it was a ring
Where all did play
The hours away,
Did laugh and sing
Still, 'One, two, three,'
Ay, even me
They made go round
To our voices' sound:
'Twas life's bright game
And Death was 'he'.
We laughed and ran
Oh, breathlessly!
And I, why, I
But a maid was then,
Pretty and winsome,
And scarce nineteen;
But 'twas 'One -- two -- three;
And -- out goes she!'



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