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Painting, Poetry

Outwitted

June 19, 2013 Larkrise 1 Comment

Persuasion — Persuasion. Taylor Leonard Campbell.

Outwitted

Edwin Markham

He drew a circle that shut me out—

Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout,

But Love and I had the wit to win:

We drew a circle that took him in!

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