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When the heart is young (1902)

Whitelock, William Wallace, 1869-1940 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 20

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get, its eyes Keep lookin straight at me,I hide behind the sofa, An I wait, an wait — until —Oh, dreadful long — but when I peep They *re watchin for me still. The other afternoon, real late, I crep up to the door,As soft as anythin, for they Was carpet on the floor;An I peeked into the parlor.… … The Eyes That Follow You But I was standin here, an IWas watchin of those eyes — An some day he 11 be sorryIf he tells sech woppin Hes. One night when Mother tucked me in She promised not to tell,So I told her bout that picture. An I told on Tommy Bell;But Mother laughed an said those eyes Just…

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