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BIRTH AND DEATH by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: TWAS IN ANOTHER'S PANGS I HITHER CAME
Last Line: HOW LIKE TO DEATH THOU ART!
Subject(s): BIRTH; DEATH; CHILD BIRTH; MIDWIFERY; DEAD, THE;
'TWAS in another's pangs I hither came;
'Tis in mine own that I anon depart.
O Birth, thou doorway hung with swords of flame,
How like to Death thou art!



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