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THE MAIN REGRET by GEORGE MEREDITH

Poet Analysis

First Line: SEEN, TOO CLEAR AND HISTORIC WITHIN US, OUR SINS OF OMISSION
Last Line: BACK TO A HALF-SLOUGHED LIFE CHEERED BY THE MERE HUMAN TONE.
Subject(s): GRIEF; REGRET; SORROW; SADNESS;
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SEEN, too clear and historic within us, our sins of omission
Frown when the Autumn days strip us all ruthlessly bare.
They of our mortal diseases find never healing physician;
Errors they of the soul, past the one hope to repair.

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Sunshine might we have been unto seed under soil, or have scattered
Seed to ascendant suns brighter than any that shone.
Even the limp-legged beggar a sick desperado has flattered
Back to a half-sloughed life cheered by the mere human tone.



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