Show me the boy who never threw
  A stone at someone's cat,
Or never hurled a snowball swift
  At someone's high silk hat —
Who never ran away from school,
  To seek the swimming hole,
Or slyly from a neighbor's yard
  Green apples never stole —

Show me the boy who never broke
  A pane of window glass,
Who never disobeyed the sign
  That says: "Keep off the grass."
Who never did a thousand things,
  That grieve us sore to tell,
And I'll show you a little boy
  Who must be far from well.

-Edgar A. Guest

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