Toys And Tragedy.
("Enfants, on vous dira plus tard.") [January, 1871.] In later years, they'll tell you grandpapa Adored his little darlings; for them did His utmost just to pleasure them and mar No moments with a frown or growl amid Their rosy rompings; that he loved them so (Though men have called him bitter, cold, and stern,) That in the famous winter when the snow Covered poor Paris, he went, old and worn, To buy them dolls, despite the falling shells, At which laughed Punch, and they, and shook his bells.
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