Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naïve.

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.