Living
A Little Boy's Vain Regret
From An American Anthology, 1787-1900, ed. E. C. Stedman (1900)
Living
He was six years old, just six that day,
And I saw he had something important to say,
As he held in his hand a broken toy.
He looked in my face for an instant, and then
He said, with a sigh, and a downcast eye,
"If I could live my life over again,
I think I could be a better boy!"
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