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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962)
Poems of the Great War: The Father
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It didn’t matter
What we were at
But he must chatter
Of this and that
His little son
Had said or done;
Till, as he told
The fiftieth time
Without a change
How three-year-old
Prattled a rhyme
They got the range
And cut him short.