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He drew a circle...
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!
-"Outwitted" by Edwin Markham (complete poem)
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- The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Selected by Hazel Felleman. Doubleday, 1936. p.67
Last updated by birnbacha on Feb. 26, 2008
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