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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FATHER HEARD HIS CHILDREN SCREAM, by ANONYMOUS
Last Line: "children should be seen, not heard!"
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Last Line: "children should be seen, not heard!"
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Father heard his children scream,
So he threw them in the stream,
Saying, as he drowned the third,
"Children should be seen, not heard!"
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