Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MASTERY, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS


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First Line: Fate? I met her long ago
Last Line: Stood and whipped her with a smile!
Subject(s): Fate; Destiny


Fate? I met her long ago—
Met and measured will and strength.
Whipped of her, I came to know
How to whip herself, at length.
First, I fought her, brute to brute;
Every blow she smote me sore,
Dazed, and mad with rage, and mute
Duly struck I back the more.

Striking blindly, striking hard
And forever striking wide—
With a broken arm for guard,
With a broken head beside.
So she mauled me as she would,
So she bullied me the while;
Till I dropped my hands and stood—
Stood and whipped her with a smile!





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