Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 - July 13, 1987 / Pennsylvania / United States)
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Fair And Unfair
The beautiful is fair. The just is fair.
Yet one is commonplace and one is rare,
One everywhere, one scarcely anywhere.
So fair unfair a world. Had we the wit
To use the surplus for the deficit,
We'd make a fairer fairer world of it.
Anonymous submission.
Robert Francis
Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003
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Poems by Robert Francis : 4 / 20
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