Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DA WISA CHILD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY


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First Line: All right, I know. All right, signor
Last Line: "an' justa keep da house for you."
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Children; Wisdom; Childhood


ALL right, I know. All right, signor;
Da same old question like bayfore!
But you are not da only frand
Dat com' to dees peanutta stand
An' look me een da eye an' say:
"Com'! why no gat married, eh?"
To-day com' wan more wise dan you,
Dat mebbe gona halp me, too.

Do you remembra long ago,
W'en first you speaka to me so,
How dat I mak' confess' to you
Dere was two fina girls I knew,
But dat I like dem both so wal
Eet was too hard for me to tal
Wheech wan be besta wife for me?
Wan girl was Angela, and she
Was jus' so pretta as can be;
An' she could seeng so sweet eet mak'
Your hearta jomp so like eet br'ak,
But dat was all dat she could do.
An' den dere was Carlotta, too,

Dat was da verra besta cook,
But had no song or pretta look
Like Angela, but steell was good
For keep da house and carry wood.
An' I was sad dat time, baycause
I want a wife, but steell da laws
Dey would not lat me marry two --
So w'at da deuce I gona do?

An' you -- you had no word to say;
But here to me ees com' to-day
A leetla girl, good frand o' mine,
Dat's only eight year old, or nine,
But verra mooch more wise dan you.
An' w'at you s'pose she tal me do?

"Tak' Angela!" she say. "Why not?
Den both of you could pay Carlot'
To carry wood an' cooka too,
An' justa keep da house for you."





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