From A Child's Garden of Verses, 1889
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Good and Bad Children
Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle;
If you would grow great and stately,
You must try to walk sedately.
You must still be bright and quiet,
And content with simple diet;
And remain, through all bewild'ring,
Innocent and honest children.
Happy hearts and happy faces,
Happy play in grassy places--
That was how in ancient ages,
Children grew to kings and sages.
But the unkind and the unruly,
And the sort who eat unduly,
They must never hope for glory--
Theirs is quite a different story!
Cruel children, crying babies,
All grow up as geese and gabies,
Hated, as their age increases,
By their nephews and their nieces.
4 comments:
do you really expect comments on this? we're damned if we do and damned if we don't.
if i were to comment i would say, "beautiful picture of sadie and lola has red hair."
jeez, what's next? selling her car because you found alcohol under the front seat.
Does sadie's shirt say I helped a squirrel?
It says "I helped Carrie!!" Something from Gay Pride, which is where we happened to be when this pic was taken.
You know we hate squirrels.
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