I used to stride like a warrior
All hot for alarms, and game —
But I'm not the fellow I was before
The little babies came.
Now, furtive‘ mid the city's noise,
I pause, I start, I flee!
For what would happen to my little boys
If a tram ran over me?
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THE HANGING SWORD · Frank Leslie Thomson Wilmot · Poetry Cove