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You who had the sense / to choose me such a mother, / you who had the indifference / to create me, / you who went to some pains / to leave hands off me / in the formative stages, -- / (I thank you most for that / perhaps) but you who / with an iron head, first, / fiercest and with strongest love / brutalized me into strength, / old dew-lap -- / I have reached the stage / where I am teaching myself / to laugh.
Come on, / take a walk with me.