To
Master EVELYN BELL
Of Oxford
Evelyn Bell,
I love you well.
INTRODUCTION
I call you bad, my little child,
Upon the title page,
Because a manner rude and wild
Is common at your age.
The Moral of this priceless work
(If rightly understood)
Will make you—from a little Turk—
Unnaturally good.
Do not as evil children do,
Who on the slightest grounds
Will imitate
the Kangaroo,
With wild unmeaning bounds: