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FIERCE PARENTS by ANNETTE WYNNE

First Line: IF YOUR PARENT SHOULD BE DRESSED IN
Last Line: AND LAUGHS BACK AS ALL FATHERS DO IN EVERY KIND OF LAND.
Subject(s): CHILDREN; JANUARY; PARENTS; CHILDHOOD; PARENTHOOD;
IF your parent should be dressed in paint and fierce array,
Perhaps you'd think you'd be afraid and run and hide away;
But the Indian child at home who sees his father so,
Doesn't mind the paint and things, but laughs to see him go
Out to the woods to hunt; and the father waves his hand
And laughs back as all fathers do in every kind of land.



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