Do you know by your crying how sadly you pain
Your mother, altho' you've no cause to complain?
And can you forget that, when sick on her knee,
How she nurs'd you and gave you sweet tamarind
tea?
A rod is the very best thing to apply
When Children are crying, and cannot tell why:
Unless they are babes in the cradle so young,
That they are not yet able to speak with their
tongue.