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DUTY by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: FOOL, DO NOT BEAT THE AIR
Last Line: A THREAD OF SONG.

Fool, do not beat the air
With miserable hands --
The wrong is done, the seed is sown,
The evil stands.

Your duty is to draw
Out of the web of wrong,
Out of ill-woven deeds,
A thread of song.



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