From my reading for this week:
"Oh Birch! Thou common dread and doom of all boys,
who found out first thy properties of pain?
Who gave thy tough lithe twigs their power to appall boys?
who laid the red foundations of thy reign?
Who made thee haunt by night the dreams of small boys?
who gave thee power o'er us thy trembling train?
Who made thee
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