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The infant moralist

Chapter 25: VIOLENCE
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A collection of short didactic poems for young readers that depict everyday domestic scenes to illustrate moral lessons. Each verse presents a simple incident—such as animal cruelty, heedless mischief, greed, envy, profanity, or neglect of the elderly—and traces its immediate consequences, often ending with parental correction or reflection. The pieces use plain rhyme and narrative vignettes to teach virtues like charity, politeness, courage, and prudence, emphasizing cause and effect in familiar, child-centered settings.

VIOLENCE

Pause, Robert, pause: remember Cain!
What’s this you say, Adolphus Bain
Has struck you with his Fist?
Nay, your Resentment lay aside,
Your Playmate you should gently chide
And ask him to desist.
If he has kicked you in the Chest,
Him you should pleasantly request
His Anger to postpone
Till you have warn’d him how such Deed
May injure Health, and Sickness breed,
And shake Religion’s Throne.
The Reverend Mister Somerville
Has brought you up extremely ill
If you he has not taught
To know that they who raise the Hand
May come to bear Cain’s awful Brand:
Now Profit by the Thought.