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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MORAL: FRANKLIN HYDE, WHO CAROUSED IN THE DIRT AND WAS CORRECTED BY HIS UNCLE , by HILAIRE BELLOC Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER SUNDAY WE UNCLES SNOOZE by JOHN CIARDI LENNIE SWENSON by KAREN SWENSON INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MY UNCLE ARLY by EDWARD LEAR THE BABES IN THE WOOD; OR, THE NORFOLK TRAGEDY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM UNCLE AN' AUNT by WILLIAM BARNES UNCLE OUT O' DEBT AN' OUT O' DANGER by WILLIAM BARNES |
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