Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ILLOGICAL, by BURGES JOHNSON


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First Line: They're as proud as they can be
Last Line: Make me have so big a voice?
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Speech; Infants; Childhood; Oratory; Orators


They're as proud as they can be
Every time the baby squeaks;
When she gets as big as me
Bet they'll scold her if she speaks!

'Cause some visitor, perhaps,
When I try to say a word,
Laughs an' says that little chaps
Should be seen instead of heard.

If that's truly what they mean,
Seems to me it wasn't wise,
If they meant me to be seen,
Not to make me bigger size.

An' if I can't talk so much,
Why did God, who had his choice
Of materials an' such,
Make me have so big a voice?





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