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Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер)


The Poor Boy’s Christmas


Observe, my child, this pretty scene,
And note the air of pleasure keen
With which the widow’s orphan boy
Toots his tin horn, his only toy.
What need of costly gifts has he?
The widow has nowhere to flee.
And ample noise his horn emits
To drive the widow into fits.

MORAL:

The philosophic mind can see
The uses of adversity.



Ellis Parker Butler's other poems:
  1. The Golf Walk
  2. At Variance
  3. The Tearful Tale of Captain Dan
  4. Night in the City
  5. Valentine to the Girl in Black


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