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Edgar Guest - Pretending Not To See
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Sometimes at the table, when
He gets misbehavin`, then
Mother calls across to me:
"Look at him, now! Don`t you see
What he`s doin`, sprawlin.` there!
Make him sit up in his chair.
Don`t you see the messy way
That he`s eating?" An` I say:
"No. He seems all right just now.
What`s he doing anyhow?"

Mother placed him there by me,
An` she thinks I ought to see
Every time he breaks the laws
An` correct him, just because
There will come a time some day
When he mustn`t act that way.
But I can`t be all along
Scoldin` him for doin` wrong.
So if something goes astray,
I jus` look the other way.

Mother tells me now an` then
I`m the easiest o` men,
An` in dealin` with the lad
I will never see the bad
That he does, an` I suppose
Mother`s right for Mother knows;
But I`d hate to feel that I`m
Here to scold him all the time.
Little faults might spoil the day,
So I look the other way.

Look the other way an` try
Not to let him catch my eye,
Knowin` all the time that he
Doesn`t mean so bad to be;
Knowin`, too, that now an` then
I am not the best o` men;
Hopin`, too, the times I fall
That the Father of us all,
Lovin`, watchin` over me,
Will pretend He doesn`t see.
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