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COMPLAINT OF THE LAD WITH HEART-DISEASE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heart-disease
Last Line: Mamma, are you calling?
Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Physicians; Doctors


I've heart-disease:
Mortal, the doctor says,
Tira-lan-lere!
My mother dear.
And I soon shall start
Her games entralling;
For I hear my beating heart:
It's mamma calling!

They laugh in the street
At my ways indiscreet,
La-liri-lun!
Tipsy one! ...
It's because no part
Of me escapes the appalling
Sound of my beating heart—
That's mamma calling!

To the fields I go
To sob in the evening glow.
Tira-li-ru!
That's stupid, too.
But the sun's rays dart
Like a heart that's falling
And I hear my beating heart:
It's mamma calling.

Ah! If little Genevieve
Would my bursting heart receive,
La-lura-li!
If only she!
She is lively, fair, and smart,
I, alas, am sadly crawling—
And I hear my beating heart:
It's mamma calling.

Good in the world? None,
Save the heart of the setting sun.
Tira-lan-lere!
My mother dear.
And I soon shall start
Her games enthralling ...
Beat, beat, beat, my heart:
Mamma, are you calling?





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