Poem: “Laddies” by Edgar A. Guest

A Heap o’ Livin’

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American Literature – American Poetry – Edgar A. Guest – Poems by Edgar A. Guest – A Heap o’ Livin’
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Laddies

Show me the boy who never threw
    A stone at someone’s cat,
  Or never hurled a snowball swift
    At someone’s high silk hat—
  Who never ran away from school,
    To seek the swimming hole,
  Or slyly from a neighbor’s yard
    Green apples never stole—

  Show me the boy who never broke
    A pane of window glass,
  Who never disobeyed the sign
    That says: “Keep off the grass.”
  Who never did a thousand things,
    That grieve us sore to tell,
  And I’ll show you a little boy
    Who must be far from well.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Edgar A. Guest – Poems by Edgar A. Guest – A Heap o’ Livin’

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