[00:00.01]Sympathetic Portrait of a Child - William Carlos Williams
[00:00.10]Sympathetic Portrait of a Child
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[00:05.12]The murderer's little daughter
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[00:07.46]Who is barely ten years old
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[00:09.84]Jerks her shoulders
[00:10.99]Right and left
[00:12.15]So as to catch a glimpse of me
[00:13.45]Without turning round
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[00:15.69]Her skinny little arms
[00:17.01]Wrap themselves
[00:18.15]This way then that
[00:19.54]Reversely about her body
[00:21.40]Nervously
[00:22.17]She crushes her straw hat
[00:23.52]About her eyes
[00:24.78]And tilts her head
[00:25.75]To deepen the shadow
[00:27.37]Smiling excitedly
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[00:29.32]As best as she can
[00:30.26]She hides herself
[00:31.37]In the full sunlight
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[00:33.12]Her cordy legs writhing
[00:34.49]Beneath the little flowered dress
[00:36.33]That leaves them bare
[00:37.43]From mid-thigh to ankle
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[00:39.44]Why has she chosen me
[00:40.91]For the knife
[00:41.62]That darts along her smile
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