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THE DOLLS by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHENEVER YOU DRESS ME DOLLS, MAMMY
Last Line: BUT ONE I LOVE TOO WELL.'
Subject(s): DOLLS; TOYS;
'WHENEVER you dress me dolls, mammy,
Why do you dress them so,
And make them gallant soldiers,
When never a one I know;
And not as gentle ladies
With frills and frocks and curls,
As people dress the dollies
Of other little girls?'

Ah - why did she not answer: -
'Because your mammy's heed
Is always gallant soldiers,
As well may be, indeed.
One of them was your daddy,
His name I must not tell;
He's not the dad who lives here,
But one I love too well.'



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