The First Tooth
Charles and Mary Lamb
"Through the house what busy joy,
Just because the infant boy
Has a tiny tooth to show!
I have got a double row,
All as white, and all as small;
Yet no one cares for mine at all.
He can say but half a word,
Yet that single sound's preferred
To all the words that I can say
In the longest summer day.
He cannot walk, yet if he put
With mimic motion of his foot,
As if he thought he were advancing,
It's prized more than my best dancing."
First off, I love the author's names. :D
And I bet most of us have felt this way where someone else seems like they please more but with less resources. Is that really such a bad thing?
But I know I've been on each end of this poem and neither is any fun.
But if we all try to treat each other as equals and not play favorites, everything ought to work out, right?
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