Because my teeth are feebly few
I cannot bolt my grub like you,
But have to chew and chew and chew
As you can see;
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Before the florid portico
I watched the gamblers come and go,
While by me on a bench there sat
A female in a faded hat;
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From torrid heat to frigid cold
I've rovered land and sea;
And now, with halting heart I hold
My grandchild on my knee:
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The sky is like an envelope,
One of those blue official things;
And, sealing it, to mock our hope,
The moon, a silver wafer, clings.
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The very skies wee black with shame,
As near my moment drew;
The very hour before you cam
I felt I hated you.
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My Pa and Ma their honeymoon
Passed in an Andulasian June,
And though produced in Drury Lane,
I must have been conceived in Spain.
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My Master is a man of might
With manners like a hog;
He makes me slave from morn to night
And treats me like a dog.
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Some deem I'm gentle, some I'm kind:
It may be so,--I cannot say.
I know I have a simple mind
And see things in a simple way;
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Don't jeer because we celebrate
Armistice Day,
Though thirty years of sorry fate
Have passed away.
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I cannot flap a flag
Or beat a drum;
Behind the mob I lag
With larynx dumb;
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