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The little old man with the curve in his back	A
And the eyes that are dim and the skin that is slack	A
So slack that it wrinkles and rolls on his cheeks	B
With a thin little voice that goes 'crack ' when he speaks	B
Never goes to the store but that right at his feet	C
Are all of the youngsters who live on the street	C
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And the little old man in the suit that was black	A
And once might have perfectly fitted his back	A
Has a boy's chubby fist in his own wrinkled hand	D
And together they trudge off to Light Hearted Land	D
Some splendid excursions he gives every day	E
To the boys and the girls in his funny old way	E
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The little old man is as queer as can be	F
He'd spend all his time with a child on his knee	F
And the stories he tells I could never repeat	C
But they're always of good boys and little girls sweet	C
And the children come home at the end of the day	E
To tell what the little old man had to say	E
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Once the little old man didn't trudge to the store	G
And the tap of his cane wasn't heard any more	G
The children looked eagerly for him each day	E
And wondered why he didn't come out to play	E
Till some of them saw Doctor Brown ring his bell	H
And they wept when they heard that he might not get well	H
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But after awhile he got out with his cane	I
And called all the children around him again	J
And I think as I see him go trudging along	K
In the center once more of his light hearted throng	K
That earth has no glory that's greater than this	L
The little old man whom the children would miss	L

Edgar Albert Guest

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