Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MORAL: FRANKLIN HYDE, WHO CAROUSED IN THE DIRT AND WAS CORRECTED BY HIS UNCLE , by HILAIRE BELLOC


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First Line: From franklin hyde's adventure learn
Last Line: May always play with sand
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Children; Play; Uncles


His Uncle came on Franklin Hyde
Carousing in the Dirt.
He Shook him hard from Side to Side
And
Hit him till it Hurt,
Exclaiming, with a Final Thud,
Take that! Abandoned Boy!
For Playing with Disgusting Mud
As though it were a Toy!'
Moral
From Franklin Hyde's adventure, learn
To pass your Leisure Time
In Cleanly Merriment, and turn
From Mud and Ooze and Slime
And every form of Nastiness-
But, on the other Hand,
Children in ordinary Dress
May always play with Sand.





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