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    The speaker's parents kept them away from other children who were rough and wore torn clothes, showing their thighs. These other children would run in the streets, climb cliffs, and swim in streams. The speaker feared their muscular, jerking hands and tight grip on their arms. They also feared the boys who would mockingly copy their lisp from behind on the road. These other children were lithe and would spring out from behind hedges like dogs to bark and throw mud. Though the speaker longed to forgive them, the other children never smiled.

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    The speaker's parents kept them away from other children who were rough and wore torn clothes, showing their thighs. These other children would run in the streets, climb cliffs, and swim in streams. The speaker feared their muscular, jerking hands and tight grip on their arms. They also feared the boys who would mockingly copy their lisp from behind on the road. These other children were lithe and would spring out from behind hedges like dogs to bark and throw mud. Though the speaker longed to forgive them, the other children never smiled.

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    My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were Rough: Stephen Spender

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    The speaker's parents kept them away from other children who were rough and wore torn clothes, showing their thighs. These other children would run in the streets, climb cliffs, and swim in streams. The speaker feared their muscular, jerking hands and tight grip on their arms. They also feared the boys who would mockingly copy their lisp from behind on the road. These other children were lithe and would spring out from behind hedges like dogs to bark and throw mud. Though the speaker longed to forgive them, the other children never smiled.

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    My Parents Kept me from Children who were Rough

    My parents kept me from children who were rough


    And who threw words like stones and who wore torn clothes.
    Their thighs showed through rags. They ran in the street
    And climbed cliffs and stripped by the country streams.

    I feared more than tigers their muscles like iron


    And their jerking hands and their knees tight on my arms.
    I feared the salt coarse pointing of those boys
    Who copied my lisp behind me on the road.

    They were lithe, they sprang out behind hedges


    Like dogs to bark at our world. They threw mud
    And I looked another way, pretending to smile.
    I longed to forgive them, yet they never smiled.

    Stephen Spender

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