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He's a boy	A
And that's the long and chiefly the short of it	B
And the point of it and the wonderful sport of it	B
A two year old with a taste for a toy	A
And two chubby fists to clutch it and grasp it	B
And two fat arms to embrace it and clasp it	B
And a short stout couple of sturdy legs	C
As hard and as smooth as ostrich eggs	C
And a jolly round head so fairly round	D
You could easily roll it	B
Or take it and bowl it	B
With never a bump along the ground	D
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And as to his cheeks they're also fat	E
I've seen them in ancient prints like that	E
Where a wind boy high	F
In a cloudy sky	F
Is puffing away for all he's worth	G
Uprooting the trees	H
With a reckless breeze	H
And strewing them over the patient earth	G
Or raising a storm to wreck the ships	I
With the work of his lungs and cheeks and lips	I
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Take a look at his eyes I put it to you	J
Were ever two eyes more truly blue	J
If you went and worried the whole world through	J
You'd never discover a bluer blue	J
I doubt if you'd find a blue so true	J
In the coats and scarves of a Cambridge crew	J
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And his hair	K
Is as fair	K
As a pretty girl's	L
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But it's right for a boy with its crisp short curls	L
All a gleam as he struts about	M
With a laugh and a shout	M
To summon his sister slaves to him	N
For his joyous Majesty's careless whim	N
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But now as after a stand he budges	L
And sets to work and solemnly trudges	L
Out from a bush there springs full tilt	O
His four legged playmate and John is spilt	O
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She's a young dog and a strong dog	P
And a tall dog and a long dog	P
A Danish lady of high degree	Q
Black coat kind eye and a stride that's free	Q
	-
And out she came	R
Like a burst of flame	R
And John	S
As he trudged and strutted	O
Sturdily on	S
Was blindly butted	O
And all his dignity spent and gone	T
On a patch of clover	U
Was tumbled over	U
His two short legs having failed to score	V
In a sudden match against Lufra's four	V
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But we picked him up	W
And we brushed him down	X
And he rated the pup	W
With a dreadful frown	X
And then he laughed and he went and hugged her	U
Seized her tail in his fist and tugged her	U
And so with a sister's hand to guide him	N
Continued his march with the dog beside him	N
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And soon he waggles his way upstairs	L
He does it alone though he finds it steep	Y
He is stripped and gowned and he says his prayers	L
And he condescends	L
To admit his friends	L
To a levee before he goes to sleep	Y
He thrones it there	K
With a battered bear	K
And a tattered monkey to form his Court	O
And having come to the end of day	O
Conceives that this is the time for play	O
And every possible kind of sport	O
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But at last tucked in for the hundredth time	Z
He babbles a bit of nursery rhyme	Z
And on the bed	O
Droops his curly round head	O
Gives one long sigh of unalloyed content	O
Over a day so well so proudly spent	O
Resigned at last to listen and obey	O
And so begins to breathe his quiet night away	O

R. C. Lehmann

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