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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EXPERIENCE: SAWDUST, by MILDRED WHITNEY STILLMAN
First Line: Why did I think you finer and more strong
Last Line: Who takes the doll, must take the sawdust, too.
Subject(s): Errors; Mistakes; Fallacies
First Line: Why did I think you finer and more strong
Last Line: Who takes the doll, must take the sawdust, too.
Subject(s): Errors; Mistakes; Fallacies
Why did I think you finer and more strong
Than other women,
Quite as fair as you?
I was a goose
With all my lessons wrong,
To think an old dream would at last come true.
So I forgot
What I have known so long.
Who takes the doll, must take the sawdust, too.
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