Social Commentaries
Baby
From Verse and Worse (1905)
Social Commentaries
Baby roused its father's ire,
By a cold and formal lisp;
So he placed it on the fire,
And reduced it to a crisp.
Mother said, 'Oh, stop a bit!
This is overdoing it!'
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MLA
Graham, Harry. “Baby.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/graham_h/79/.
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Graham, Harry. “Baby.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/graham_h/79/.
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