CHIDDEN still murmurs,
SLAPPED and RAPPED complain,
HURT, with a thousand tongues,
Whines out his pain.
This is the learning
Unto which we come:
PROPERLY WALLOPED
Is for ever dumb.
Recipe
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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