Читать книгу Bib Ballads - Lardner Ring - Страница 7

FOREWORD

Dear Parents:—Don’t imagine, please,

It’s in a boastful spirit

I fashion verses such as these;

That’s not the truth or near it.

A hundred or a thousand, yes,

A million kids there may be

Who aren’t one iota less

Attractive than this baby.

I’ll venture that your household has

As valuable a treasure

As mine, but mine I know, and as

For yours, I’ve not that pleasure.

And that is why my book’s about

Just one, O Dads and Mothers;

But babes are babes, and mine, no doubt,

Is very much like others.

THE AUTHOR