by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821 - 1895)

A Terrible Infant
Language: English 
I recollect a nurse call'd Ann, 
Who carried me about the grass, 
And one fine day a fine young man 
Came up, and kissed the pretty lass: 
She did not make the least objection! 
Thinks I,  "Aha! 
When I can talk, I'll tell Mamma." 
--  And that's my earliest recollection.

Confirmed with The Poems of Frederick Locker, New York: White, Stokes, and Allen, 1883, page 193.


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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation (G. S. ) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Enfant terrible" [an adaptation] ; composed by Franz von Blon, Carl Bohm, Alban Förster, Oscar Fretzdorff, B. von Luschin.

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