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The Comrades

Poems Old & New: By William Canton
  

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71

Any Father

We talked of you; in happy dreams
Our hearts foretold you,
O little Blossom!
And yet how marvellous it seems
To see and hold you!
We guessed you boy, we guessed you maid,
Right glad of either;
How like, how unlike all we said,
Upon her knee there,
You lie and twit us,
O little Blossom!