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MORAL: FRANKLIN HYDE, WHO CAROUSED IN THE DIRT AND WAS CORRECTED BY HIS UNCLE by HILAIRE BELLOC

Poet Analysis

First Line: FROM FRANKLIN HYDE'S ADVENTURE LEARN
Last Line: MAY ALWAYS PLAY WITH SAND
Subject(s): CHILDREN; PLAY; UNCLES;
His Uncle came on Franklin Hyde
Carousing in the Dirt.
He Shook him hard from Side to Side
And
Hit him till it Hurt,
Exclaiming, with a Final Thud,
Take that! Abandoned Boy!
For Playing with Disgusting Mud
As though it were a Toy!'
Moral
From Franklin Hyde's adventure, learn
To pass your Leisure Time
In Cleanly Merriment, and turn
From Mud and Ooze and Slime
And every form of Nastiness-
But, on the other Hand,
Children in ordinary Dress
May always play with Sand.



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