Social Commentaries
A Hate-Song
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Social Commentaries
A hater he came and sat by a ditch,
And he took an old cracked lute;
And he sang a song which was more of a screech
’Gainst a woman that was a brute.
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Codex Note
Written 1817. Published 1870.
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