Social Commentaries
On Reading a Diary
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Social Commentaries
That flesh is grass is now as clear as day,
To any but the merest purblind pup;
Death cuts it down, and then, to make her hay,
My Lady B---- comes and rakes it up.
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Hood, Thomas. “On Reading a Diary.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/142/.
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Hood, Thomas. “On Reading a Diary.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/142/.
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