CRUEL!

CRUEL!

She tried to scratch out both my eyes(It is true!)Tried to pull off both my ears,My nose, too;Scolded me—I thought she saidShe would leave upon my headNot a solitary hair—Meant it, laughing—didn’t care!Well, it rather hurt, but IMurmured not, nor made outcry;Let her pull, and scratch, and scold;(She is only six months old).

She tried to scratch out both my eyes(It is true!)Tried to pull off both my ears,My nose, too;Scolded me—I thought she saidShe would leave upon my headNot a solitary hair—Meant it, laughing—didn’t care!Well, it rather hurt, but IMurmured not, nor made outcry;Let her pull, and scratch, and scold;(She is only six months old).

She tried to scratch out both my eyes(It is true!)Tried to pull off both my ears,My nose, too;Scolded me—I thought she saidShe would leave upon my headNot a solitary hair—Meant it, laughing—didn’t care!

She tried to scratch out both my eyes

(It is true!)

Tried to pull off both my ears,

My nose, too;

Scolded me—I thought she said

She would leave upon my head

Not a solitary hair—

Meant it, laughing—didn’t care!

Well, it rather hurt, but IMurmured not, nor made outcry;Let her pull, and scratch, and scold;(She is only six months old).

Well, it rather hurt, but I

Murmured not, nor made outcry;

Let her pull, and scratch, and scold;

(She is only six months old).


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