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When you bottle feed a baby,
It trusts you'll give it care.
Baby lambs so trusting,
Not knowing to beware.
Yes, I tended and played
For months unknowing,
That one day no longer
would they be growing.
After school to the barn
I happily ran
But no longer did I have
My sweet little lambs.
The lesson at the age of six
Was a lamb was cute as a button
Soon became a wooly sheep
And then was sold as mutton.
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