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A VOICE SPAKE OUT OF THE SKIES' 0 by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Were nothing the next minute?
Subject(s): TRANSIENCE;
A voice spake out of the skies
To a just man and a wise!-
! The world and all within it
Will only last a minute!!'
And a beggar began to cry
! Food, food or I die!'!
Is it worth his while to eat,
Or mine to give him meat,
If the world and all within it
Were nothing the next minute?



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