If I were only a little puppy, not your baby, mother dear, would <br />you say "No" to me if I tried to eat from your dish? <br />Would you drive me off, saying to me, "Get away, you naughty <br />little puppy?" <br />Then go, mother, go! I will never come to you when you call <br />me, and never let you feed me any more. <br />If I were only a little green parrot, and not your baby, <br />mother dear, would you keep me chained lest I should fly away? <br />Would you shake your finger at me and say, "What an ungrateful <br />wretch of a bird! It is gnawing at its chain day and night?" <br />The go, mother, go! I will run away into the woods; I will <br />never let you take me in your arms again.<br /><br />Sir Rabindranath Tagore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sympathy-11/
