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To A Bully

By Eugene Field

Topics: classic

You, blatant coward that you are,     Upon the helpless vent your spite.     Suppose you ply your trade on me;     Come, monkey with this bard, and see     How I'll repay your bark with bite!     Ay, snarl just once at me, you brute!     And I shall hound you far and wide,     As fiercely as through drifted snow     The shepherd dog pursues what foe     Skulks on the Spartan mountain-side.     The chip is on my shoulder--see?     But touch it and I'll raise your fur;     I'm full of business, so beware!     For, though I'm loaded up for bear,     I'm quite as like to kill a cur!

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Eugene Field (1850–1895) was an American writer and poet known as the "children's poet." His poems "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "Little Boy Blue" are cherished classics of American children's literature.

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