You, blatant coward that you are, <br />Upon the helpless vent your spite. <br />Suppose you ply your trade on me; <br />Come, monkey with this bard, and see <br />How I'll repay your bark with bite! <br /> <br />Ay, snarl just once at me, you brute! <br />And I shall hound you far and wide, <br />As fiercely as through drifted snow <br />The shepherd dog pursues what foe <br />Skulks on the Spartan mountain-side. <br /> <br />The chip is on my shoulder--see? <br />But touch it and I'll raise your fur; <br />I'm full of business, so beware! <br />For, though I'm loaded up for bear, <br />I'm quite as like to kill a cur!<br /><br />Eugene Field<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-bully/
