The Blogs: Longfellow on Sharon

Perhaps the poem, There Was a Little Girl, lovingly written about the daughter of 19th century American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, best eulogizes the life of Ariel Sharon….

There was a little girl,

Who had a little curl,

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good,

She was very good indeed,

But when she was bad she was horrid.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Ariel Sharon
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The rest of the poem is insightful as well. It exhibits the feelings of the parent (Israel) who has found the beloved child (Arik) making mischief (the “Disengagement”) and punished her for her inappropriate antics.

One day she went upstairs,

When her parents, unawares,

In the kitchen were occupied with meals,

And she stood upon her head

In her little trundle-bed,

And then began hooraying with her heels.

Her mother heard the noise,

And she thought it was the boys

A-playing at a combat in the attic;

But when she climbed the stair,

And found Jemima there,

She took and she did spank her most emphatic.