In his clever "Song to Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children," he said that after his daughter Jill was born he felt anxious and ill at ease because somewhere a baby boy, still drooling and empty-headed, was also growing up and was fated in the future to steal away his daughter.
他在一首妙詩「由女嬰之父來唱的歌」（Song to Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children）之中，說他生了女兒吉兒之後，惴惴不安，感到不知什麼地方正有個男嬰也在長大，現在雖然還渾渾噩噩，口吐白沫，卻註定將來會搶走他的吉兒。