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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CYNTHIA JANE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear,' said her mother to cynthia jane
Last Line: "come to school with a hole in her stocking!"
Subject(s): Children; Girls; Childhood
First Line: My dear,' said her mother to cynthia jane
Last Line: "come to school with a hole in her stocking!"
Subject(s): Children; Girls; Childhood
"MY DEAR," said her mother to Cynthia Jane,
"What is this that I see in your stocking?
A child of your years should be saddened to tears
By a sight so untidy and shocking."
"I will mend it at once," cried sweet Cynthia Jane,
All abashed at such sad dereliction—
But Lucinda May Spence called her over the fence
And—Alas! How too rare is perfection!
The darning-wool ball, found that day by the cat,
Shows the dear child intended to do it,
But, when sleep closed the game of Lucinda and Jane,
The stocking still lay where she threw it!
Swift punishment came in a terrible dream
Of rude boys who, laughing and mocking,
Said again and again: "Look at Cynthia Jane,
Come to school with a hole in her stocking!"
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