And the name of the house? I cannot guess!”

The inmate’s a shriveled-up dwarf called Self,

And the narrow house is Selfishness!


[THE LITTLE HAIR TRUNK]

There’s a little hair trunk in the attic stored,

Under the rafters packed away;

With a heart nigh broken, a mother’s hands

Tenderly carried it there one day.

The tears fell fast as she closed the lid