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ALFRED is gentle as a girl, / But Judith longs to be a boy! / Would cut off every pretty curl / With eager joy!
Hates to be called "my dear" -- or kissed: / For dollies does not care one fig: / Goes, sticking hands up to the wrist / In jackets big.
Would like to do whate'er boy can; / Play cricket -- even to go school: / It is so grand to be a man! / A girl's a fool!
But Alfred smiles superior love / On all these innocent vagaries. / He'd hate a goose! but yet a dove / Ah, much more rare is!
She's anything but dove, good sooth! / But she's his dear and only sister: / And, had she been a boy, in truth / How he'd have missed her.
So, gradually her folly dies, / And she'll consent to be just human, / When there shines out of girlish eyes / The real Woman.