SOUL DISCIPLINE

They say I'm a bad-tempered man,

And yet I never swear

When flop into my porridge

Comes a woolly Teddy Bear!

They say I'm an impatient man,

And yet I never shoot

When, after breakfasting, I find

Damp toffy in my boot!

And when my wife and my two sons

Are dutifully kissed,

I do n't go crook if I'm called back

When Sufi has been missed!

I'm always on the scowl and quick

To censure or condemn;

But, somehow things seem different

With little boys like them.