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HERE HE COMES, BIG WITH STATISTICS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: I'd rather be blind of an eye
Subject(s): TEACHING & TEACHERS; STATISTICS & STATISTICIANS;

Here he comes, big with statistics,
Troubled and sharp about fac's.
He has heap of the Form that is thinkable''"
The stuff that is feeling, he lacks.

Do you envy this whiskered absurdity,
With pince-nez and clerical tie?
Poor fellow, he's blind of a sympathy!
I'd rather be blind of an eye.



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