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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: What cant, oh, what hypocrisy
Last Line: Get everlasting bliss!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Hypocrisy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature
First Line: What cant, oh, what hypocrisy
Last Line: Get everlasting bliss!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Hypocrisy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature
What cant, oh, what hypocrisy
Is centred in this life of man!
Self-preservation is his God,
And has been, since his life began.
He sits to breakfast with no care
Of others that have none;
He keeps more idle rooms than two,
While families live in one;
He saves his gold, and yet he sees
Others without a penny;
He hoards his clothes, and knows full well
Of children without any.
He makes his own sweet life secure,
And then -- to crown all this --
Insults a God by thinking he'll
Get everlasting bliss!
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