http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7057 Tue, 20 May 2025 03:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7057&cpage=1#comment-296207 Peter Rogan Fri, 06 Apr 2018 23:58:18 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7057#comment-296207 Lot of scarcely-concealed hostility, indeed unfocused rage, in old nursery rhymes. "Today's the day we give babies away / With half a pound of tea..." The only thing that matches it is Puritan poetry about crying children: "But get away without delay, / Christ pities not your cries. / Depart to Hell where you may yell and roar enternally!" Courtesy of the Reverend Michael Wigglesworth's 'The Day of Doom.' I'm amazed any of them reached adulthood at all. Lot of scarcely-concealed hostility, indeed unfocused rage, in old nursery rhymes. “Today’s the day we give babies away / With half a pound of tea…” The only thing that matches it is Puritan poetry about crying children: “But get away without delay, / Christ pities not your cries. / Depart to Hell where you may yell and roar enternally!” Courtesy of the Reverend Michael Wigglesworth’s ‘The Day of Doom.’ I’m amazed any of them reached adulthood at all.

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