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GRANDPAPA lives at the end of the lane, / His cottage is small and its furniture plain; / No pony to ride on, no equipage grand, -- / A garden, and just half an acre of land; / No dainties to dine off, and very few toys, -- / Yet is grandpapa's house the delight of the boys.
Grandpapa once lived in one little room, / Grandpapa worked all day long at his loom: / He speaks with queer accent, does dear grandpapa, / And not half so well as papa and mamma. / The girls think his clothes are a little rough, / But the boys all declare they can't love him enough.
A man of the people in manners and mind, / Yet so honest, so tender, so clever, so kind: / Makes the best of his lot still, where'er it be cast. / A sturdy old Englishman, game to the last. / Though simple and humble and unknown to fame, / It's good luck to the boys to bear grandpapa's name!