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Show The Leper TTonr tho fRt-r! Down tbo Ftrcpf Sou ml hla uliuflllny, woury reet Iliin wltliln! Little children., Jo not look; Hide your cycg behind your book; For lils face la scajTetl and thin, IJiu'd by llenr the leiw! Shut tho door; Dould3 Itiok tli Kalis oice morn. Do not peep Round the curtain's lifted skip; tr he. iocs you, woe betide, Fep that dreadful iuco will creep Through your sleep. 'Ware tho J.':por! Who can know That ho lovc-3 thpe children so That he njlps Through thp hated markot-phtro Just to vach si baby's faco And the joys itx mother slpa Prom Us lips? Kail Junker, in Century Magazine. |