The Four Children Poem
The Four Children
To our Seder last year came a strange looking man with four kids:
Smarty, Nasty, and Simple, and Sam.
Now smarty was smart – so clever and wise,
He could do the whole Seder while closing his eyes.
From the beginning to end, from the end to the start,
he recited it over and over by heart.
In Hebrew and Hindi, in Snufic and Roman,
From the first Ha Lachma to the last Afikoman.
But Nasty refused to take part in the Seder.
He just sat there and smiled with his pet alligator
as he pulled people’s hair and he poked people’s eyes
and sprinkled their matzah with beetles and flies.
He certainly has quite a bad attitude.
If his fangs were less sharp, he might not be so rude.
If he’d been in Egypt complaining this way, we’d have left him behind to keep slaving all day.
Away in the corner sits sweet sister Simple.
Whenever she smiles her face breaks out in dimples.
She only asks about simple facts like “What is a matzah?”
and tell me how tall is a Gloogasaurus Zax?’
Sam doesn’t even know what to say.
He just sits in his box till the end of the day.
Till his dad packs him up and takes him away.
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