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{ g I TRY to love my neighbor ·
* As all the texts decree,
But find it is a labor `
That’s much too much for me. ‘
. · I’ll put the facts before you
As brie_fly as I can
‘ ’ And ask you-and implore you- [
. 4 _ How can I love the man?
‘ ’ l My neighbor’s daughter hammers
_ _ f The keyboard night and noon;
1 IU y neighbor’s Airedale clamors I
7 T At darkness—or the moon. "
_ _ · His helpmate borrows dishes ;
Q And food and books they lack; ‘
- - - ‘ We lend her what she wishes-
_ _ » She never brings them‘back. l
- - ·   I shoo my neighbor’s chickens — ` -
1 From of my garden plot;
` ` ` { His children raise the clickens A A'
. . . · _ By trampling on my lot. '
{ _ Upon his front piazza $ I
‘ ‘ ‘ = 4 My neighbor sits-the brute- · ‘
. . . l Without a shirt. He has a- »
And plays d—noisy flute!
_v__ § And if I had not studied l
{ The Golden Rule divine, 0 {L?
»~·- By now I would have bloodied gt ,
· My neighbor’s nose-and mine! Q
```` ~ By patience and by labor Y
- r' I’ve kept my wrath at bay, ¤ *
But I can’t love my neighbor {
" "" ‘ · Until he moves away! ··» · (
J -Berton Braley. J,