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A WARNING by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE

Poet Analysis

First Line: I SAW, AND TREMBLED FOR THE DAY
Last Line: AND, ON THE OTHER, LIONS.
Subject(s): LOVE; MISOGYNY;
I saw, and trembled for the day
When you should see her beauty, gay
And pure as apple-blooms, that show
Outside a blush and inside snow,
Her high and touching elegance
Of order'd life as free as chance.
Ah, haste from her bewitching side,
No friend for you, far less a bride!
He that but once too nearly hears
The music of forefended spheres,
Is thenceforth lonely, and for all
His days like one who treads the Wall
Of China, and, on this hand, sees
Cities and their civilities,
And, on the other, lions.



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