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DANGERS FACED by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Poet Analysis

First Line: MY HEART IS FILLED WITH BITTER THOUGHT
Last Line: WE FACE THEM, AND THEY'RE GONE.
Subject(s): FEAR;

MY heart is filled with bitter thought,
My eyes would fain shed tears;
I have been thinking upon past,
And upon future years.

Years past -- why should I stir the depths
Beneath their troubled stream?
And years that are as yet to come,
Of them I dread to dream.

Yet wherefore pause upon our way?
'Tis best to hurry on;
For half the dangers that we fear,
We face them, and they're gone.



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