I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days- All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have something more to do than to feel.

For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly be…