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Title: Grandpapa
Author: Dinah M. Mulock Craik [
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GRANDPAPA lives at the end of the lane,
His cottage is small and its furniture plain;
No pony to ride on, no equipage grand,--
A garden, and just half an acre of land;
No dainties to dine off, and very few toys,--
Yet is grandpapa's house the delight of the boys.
Grandpapa once lived in one little room,
Grandpapa worked all day long at his loom:
He speaks with queer accent, does dear grandpapa,
And not half so well as papa and mamma.
The girls think his clothes are a little rough,
But the boys all declare they can't love him enough.
A man of the people in manners and mind,
Yet so honest, so tender, so clever, so kind:
Makes the best of his lot still, where'er it be cast.
A sturdy old Englishman, game to the last.
Though simple and humble and unknown to fame,
It's good luck to the boys to bear grandpapa's name!
[The end]
Dinah M. Mulock Craik's poem: Grandpapa
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