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HIS KNOWLEDGE by KATHARINE TYNAN

First Line: NO ONE WILL LOVE YOU IF YOU'RE NAUGHTY,' SAID
Last Line: "HE ANSWERED, ""MOTHER WILL."
Subject(s): ADVICE; CHILDREN; KNOWLEDGE; LOVE; MOTHERS; SONS; CHILDHOOD;
"NO one will love you if you're naughty," said
His nurse, demure and chill.
The Three-years Wisdom shook his bird-bright head,
And answered, "Mother will."

He built a castle of his bricks the while,
Poised tower and bastion still;
As one who suffers Folly with a smile,
He answered, "Mother will."



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