To A Bully

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You, blatant coward that you are,
  Upon the helpless vent your spite.
Suppose you ply your trade on me;
Come, monkey with this bard, and see
  How I'll repay your bark with bite!

Ay, snarl just once at me, you brute!
  And I shall hound you far and wide,
As fiercely as through drifted snow
The shepherd dog pursues what foe
  Skulks on the Spartan mountain-side.

The chip is on my shoulder--see?
  But touch it and I'll raise your fur;
I'm full of business, so beware!
For, though I'm loaded up for bear,
  I'm quite as like to kill a cur!

© Eugene Field