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Show The Balloon Peddler. Who is the man on Chestnut street With colored toy balloons? I see him with his airy freight On sunny afternoons A peddler of such lovely goods! The heart leaps to behold His mass of bubbles, red and green And blue and pink and gold. Beware, oh, valiant merchantman. Tread cautious on the pave! Lest some day come some realist, Some haggard soul and grave, A Puritan efficientist Who deems thy toys a sin He'll stalk three madly from behind And prick them with a pin! From "The Rocking Horse" (Doran). Christopher Mo-ley. |