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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JUST THE AGE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poet's Biography
First Line: You're just the age when all around
Last Line: You're just the age you need your mother.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: You're just the age when all around
Last Line: You're just the age you need your mother.
Subject(s): Mothers
You're just the age when all around,
My girl, new dangers will be found,
You're just the age when happy youth
Needs loving counsel, simple truth,
When all around you every day
New paths and strange paths lead away --
A greater time than any other,
You're just the age you need your mother.
A father may be good and kind,
Yet women see when men are blind;
Though friends advise, and friends attend,
How shall you know which friend is friend?
Though others try the way to show,
Your mother walked it long ago.
Yes, friend or father, chum or brother,
You're just the age you need your mother.
Remember, will you? All along
You knew the right, and knew the wrong,
And knew the foolish from the wise --
But now there's something in your eyes,
The way you look, the way you speak,
The way the color tints your cheek,
That seems to say, somehow or other,
You're just the age you need your mother.
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