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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