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My father bid me, “When you can, Try to act like a strong fellow, Always take it like a man. Things will not go as you plan, Try like a boy not to wallow,” My father bid me, “when you can.” Advice before real trial began, Advice preparing for tomorrow. “Always take it like a man.” There were times I wished I’d ran, I never run because, “I will follow,” My father bid me, “when you can.” His father taught him this same ban, “Never kneel and never swallow, Always take it like a man, When you’re restrained by some man’s hand, And you are made to bite the pillow,” My father bid me, “When you can, Always take it like a man.”
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Aug 4, 2015
Aug 4, 2015 at 12:15 PM UTC
Words from a Father: A Villanelle
My father bid me, “When you can, Try to act like a strong fellow, Always take it like a man. Things will not go as you plan, Try like a boy not to wallow,” My father bid me, “when you can.” Advice before real trial began, Advice preparing for tomorrow. “Always take it like a man.” There were times I wished I’d ran, I never run because, “I will follow,” My father bid me, “when you can.” His father taught him this same ban, “Never kneel and never swallow, Always take it like a man, When you’re restrained by some man’s hand, And you are made to bite the pillow,” My father bid me, “When you can, Always take it like a man.”
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Aug 4, 2015
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