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Robert W Service - Poor KidRobert W Service - Poor Kid
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Mumsie and Dad are raven dark          And I am lily blonde. ``Tis strange,` I once heard nurse remark,          `You do not correspond.` And yet they claim me as their own,          Born of their flesh and bone. To doubt their parenthood I dread,          But now to girlhood grown, The thought is haunting in my head          That I am not their own: If so, my radiant bloom of youth          Would wither in the truth. `Twould give me anguish deep to know          A fondling babe was I; And that a maid in wedless woe          Left me to live or die: I`d rather Mother lied and lied          To save my pride. I love them both and they love me;          I am their all, they say. Yet though the sweetest home have we,          To know I`m theirs I pray. If not, please dear ones, never tell . . .          The truth would be of hell.
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