Hapless

Hapless written by Walter de la Mare

Peacock Pie (1913)

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Hapless, hapless, I must be,
All the hours of life I see,
Since my foolish nurse did once
Bed me on her leggen bones;
Since my mother did not weel
To snip my nails with blades of steel.
Had they laid me on a pillow
In a cot of water willow,
Had they bitten finger and thumb,
Not to such ill hap I had come.

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