Little Tyrants, Circa 1902

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From: Charles Walter Brown, The American Star Speaker And Model Elocutionist (Chicago: M A. Donohue & Co., 1902)

LITTLE TYRANT.

Let every sound be dead;
Baby sleeps.
The Emperor softly tread!
Baby sleeps.
Let Mozart's music stop!
Let Phidias' chisel drop!
Baby sleeps.
Demosthenes be dumb!
Our tyrant's hour has come!
Baby sleeps.

-ANONYMOUS.