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SEVENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE GOES A MAN OF SEVENTY-FOUR
Last Line: WHAT EARTH'S INGRAINED CONDITIONS ARE.
Subject(s): OLD AGE;
HERE goes a man of seventy-four,
Who sees not what life means for him,
And here another in years a score
Who reads its very figure and trim.

The one who shall walk to-day with me
Is not the youth who gazes far,
But the breezy sire who cannot see
What Earth's ingrained conditions are.



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