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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CHANGELING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: A child with monstrous pumpkin head
Last Line: For heaven's sake, drown it or else burn it!
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Monsters; Infants; Childhood
First Line: A child with monstrous pumpkin head
Last Line: For heaven's sake, drown it or else burn it!
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Monsters; Infants; Childhood
A CHILD with monstrous pumpkin head,
Grey pigtail, and moustache light red,
With lanky arms and yet stupendous,
No bowels, yet with maw tremendous, --
A changling which a Corporal
Into our cradle had let fall
On stealing from it our own baby --
This monster, falsehood's child, (or may be
'Twas in reality the son
Of his own favourite dog alone) --
What need to say how much we spurn it?
For heaven's sake, drown it or else burn it!
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