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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE INFLATION OF THE CURRENCY, 1919, by ROBERT FROST Poet's Biography
First Line: The pain of seeing ten cents turned to five!
Last Line: They know what's best for them too well to laugh.
Subject(s): Inflation (economics)
First Line: The pain of seeing ten cents turned to five!
Last Line: They know what's best for them too well to laugh.
Subject(s): Inflation (economics)
The pain of seeing ten cents turned to five!
We clutch with both hands fiercely at the part
We think we feel it in -- the head, the heart.
Is someone cutting us in two alive?
Is someone at us cutting us in half?
We cast a dangerous look from where we lie
Up to the enthroned kings of earth and sky.
They know what's best for them too well to laugh.
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