Which lines in this excerpt from the poem "A Grain of Sand" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper indicates its subject?

(Do you see this grain of sand)

Lying loosely in my hand?

Do you know to me it brought

(Just a simple loving thought?)

When one gazes night by night

(On the glorious stars of light,)

(Oh how little seems the span)

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Genevieve Andrade

21 September, 15:31

Which lines in this excerpt from the poem "A Grain of Sand" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper indicates its subject?

(Do you see this grain of sand)

Lying loosely in my hand?

Do you know to me it brought

(Just a simple loving thought?)

When one gazes night by night

(On the glorious stars of light,)

(Oh how little seems the span)

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Blaze Bush · Answer 1

The lines in this excerpt from the poem "A Grain of Sand" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper that indicates its subject are the last two:

D. Oh how little seems the span

Measured round the life of man.

The subject of this poem is transience - how time is fleeting, and how we are alive for such a small period of time.