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ONLY ONCE by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: MOMENTOUS TO HIMSELF AS I TO ME
Last Line: I FELT THIS TRUTH, AN INSTANT, AND NO MORE.
Subject(s): SELF;
MOMENTOUS to himself as I to me
Hath each man been that ever woman bore;
Once, in a lightning-flash of sympathy,
I @3felt@1 this truth, an instant, and no more.



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