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CHILDHOOD: 2 by RICHARD ALDINGTON

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First Line: I'VE SEEN PEOPLE PUT
That's how I was.

Somebody found my chrysalis

And shut it in a match-box.
I've seen people put
My shrivelled wings were beaten,
A chrysalis in a match-box,
Shed their colours in dusty scales
To see, they told me, "what sort of moth would come."
Before the box was opened
But when it broke its shell
For the moth to fly.
It slipped and stumbled and fell about its prison

And tried to climb to the light

For space to dry its wings.


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