Civilized Boy

Civilized Boy

by L. Frank Baum

Pray, what can a civilized
                            boy do now,
       When all the Dragons all
                                          are dead,
And the Giants stout,
                that we have read about,
      Have never one a head?

Now, wasn't it mean that Jack o'the
                                                     Bean
    Should slay these monsters fast,
And the other Jack should cut and hack
    When there weren't enough to last?

The boys today are as bold as they say,
       As ever they were of yore;
And they'd spill a flood
        of Dragon's Blood
     If Dragons lived
                   any more.


Found here in an etext version of his book of poems, Father Goose, His Book.