The Red Wheelbarrow
8 lines✦
o much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
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— Phillis Wheatley
GRIM monarch! see, depriv'd of vital breath,
A young physician in the dust of death:
Dost thou go on incessant to destroy,
Our griefs to double, and lay waste our joy?
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