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This poem was included in the original 1915 edition.

If a man could bite the giant hand
That catches and destroys him,
As I was bitten by a rat
While demonstrating my patent trap,
In my hardware store that day.
But a man can never avenge himself
On the monstrous ogre Life.
You enter the room  that's being born;
And then you must live  work out your soul,
Of the cross-current in life
Which Bring honor to the dead, who lived in shame.
 

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jade , 6 months ago

nice!

 

Brad Duniphin , 4 months ago

this story is about old things or maybe my grandma...

 
 

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