who worries that he studies too much and does not learn about the pleasures of life.
A fact well-known to moms with boys
is that the brats have subtle ploys
to get their own ideas round
their folks' diktats to keep them sound.
I bet your kid pretends to study,
and borrow books, and gets all muddy,
but goes amid the slave-girls lewdly
to learn their nooks and grow up shrewdly.
Don't raise your knobbly hand at him
because the chances are not slim
a young man's hobby may become
a nation's stance against the scum.
