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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CIVILIZATION, by E. P. BROWNING
First Line: Gray eyes / and chubby fists
Last Line: And greed.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Gray eyes / and chubby fists
Last Line: And greed.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Gray eyes,
And chubby fists
That clasp my hands in faith;
The whole, a life for which I live --
My child.
Grim men
In endless lines;
Then mounds of bleeding flesh
And murdered men 'neath crosses white --
Man's war.
My child
With chubby fists,
Perhaps tomorrow's Christ
Sacrificed to man's brutish hate
And greed.
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