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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CHILD FOR SALE, by MELEAGER Poet's Biography
First Line: Sell him! Though snuggled at his mother's breast
Last Line: Stay with zenophila and I'll not sell you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Sell him! Though snuggled at his mother's breast
Last Line: Stay with zenophila and I'll not sell you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
SELL him! though snuggled at his mother's breast.
Sell him! why should I rear the little pest?
Snub-nosed, half-fledged, and, scratching all the while
he weeps the better to display his smile.
How can I rear a lynx-eyed chatterbox,
whose venom at his mother's guidance mocks?
The thing's a monster. Find a pedlar! Maybe
one leaving town at once will buy this baby!
But look! love pleads, he weeps. Nay! cease I tell you!
Stay with Zenophila and I'll not sell you.
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