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GRANDMAMMA'S WARNING by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE IS A FIRE,' SHE SAID. 'LOVE IS A FIRE
Last Line: "OH, DID YOU LEARN BY WHAT YOUR ELDERS TOLD?"
Subject(s): GRANDPARENTS; LOVE - NATURE OF; GRANDMOTHERS; GRANDFATHERS; GREAT GRANDFATHERS; GREAT GRANDMOTHERS;
"LOVE is a fire," she said. "Love is a fire,
Beware the madness of that wild desire!
I know, for I was young, and now am old". . . .
"Oh, did you learn by what your elders told?"




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