Show me the boy who never threw <br />A stone at someone's cat, <br />Or never hurled a snowball swift <br />At someone's high silk hat — <br />Who never ran away from school, <br />To seek the swimming hole, <br />Or slyly from a neighbor's yard <br />Green apples never stole — <br /> <br />Show me the boy who never broke <br />A pane of window glass, <br />Who never disobeyed the sign <br />That says: 'Keep off the grass.' <br />Who never did a thousand things, <br />That grieve us sore to tell, <br />And I'll show you a little boy <br />Who must be far from well.<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/laddies/
