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To Chloe

Paraphrase from ‘Echoes from the Sabine Farm,’ by Eugene and Roswell Martin Field

CHLOE, you shun me like a hind

That, seeking vainly for her mother,

Hears danger in each breath of wind,

And wildly darts this way and t’other;

Whether the breezes sway the wood

Or lizards scuttle through the brambles,

She starts; and off as though pursued

The foolish frightened creature scrambles.

But, Chloe, you’re no infant thing

That should esteem a man an ogre:

Let go your mother’s apron-string

And pin your faith upon a toga!