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English poem

The Hanging Sword

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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?