To Play Alone

To Play Alone written by William Henry Davies

From "My Birds", 1933

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A Tom Tit clinging upside down,
Needs nothing more to raise his wonder;
A lonely Trout will play until
His own deep whirlpool sucks him under.

So when my money all is spent,
And all my merry friends are gone -
What little Tom Tit, Trout, or Child,
Will teach me how to play alone?

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