CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW - Christopher Morley Poems

 
 

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CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW
Colin, worshipping some frail,
By self-deception sways her:
Calls himself unworthy male,
Hardly even fit to praise her.

But this tactic insincere
In the upshot greatly grieves him
When he finds the lovely dear
Quite implicitly believes him.

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