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The Tholing Child

Donald P. Goodman III

Version 1.0 (20 May 1201)

A child will pout, nose red and eyes all wet,

demand to now why mother e'er would let

such cruel things happen to a child so good.

If she could stop them, surely then she would?

If she could them prevent, surely she should?

She either can't or won't; and so he cries.

Though mother to her apron-strings him ties,

and says it's for his good, he yells, "She lies!"

and nothing can a troubl'd child console.

But mother knows how much her child can thole;

a child should trust the one who sees the whole,

not judge, because he can't see all things yet.

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