Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HUNTING JOY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: How sad a face this knowledge wears!
Last Line: Shall never know what sport is there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


How sad a face this Knowledge wears! How strange is Truth, which none can
doubt!
How easy is an Eden made,
How hard to keep the Serpent out!
How easy to create a Joy,
How hard to hold it safe and fast;
Since half the world would hunt it down,
As Fame, or Love, can prove at last.
I'll make my Joy a secret thing,
My face shall wear a mask of care;
And those who hunt a Joy to death,
Shall never know what sport is there!





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