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Dear Parents: -- Don't imagine, please, / It's in a boastful spirit / I fashion verses such as these; / That's not the truth or near it.
A hundred or a thousand, yes, / A million kids there may be / Who aren't one iota less / Attractive than this baby.
I'll venture that your household has / As valuable a treasure / As mine, but mine I know, and as / For yours, I've not that pleasure.
And that is why my book's about / Just one, O Dads and Mothers; / But babes are babes, and mine, no doubt, / Is very much like others.
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