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- THE DOLLS
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- A DOLL in the doll-maker's house
- Looks at the cradle and bawls:
- "That is an insult to us.'
- But the oldest of all the dolls,
- Who had seen, being kept for show,
- Generations of his sort,
- Out-screams the whole shelf: 'Although
- There's not a man can report
- Evil of this place,
- The man and the woman bring
- Hither, to our disgrace,
- A noisy and filthy thing.'
- Hearing him groan and stretch
- The doll-maker's wife is aware
- Her husband has heard the wretch,
- And crouched by the arm of his chair,
- She murmurs into his ear,
- Head upon shoulder leant:
- "My dear, my dear, O dear.
- It was an accident.'
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