Passion Flowers (Watson)/A Baby
A Baby.
What can you do, you dearest of babies;
You sweet lazy baby, say what can you do?
Mother and father and brother are working—
All of us working, sweet baby, but you.
You sweet lazy baby, say what can you do?
Mother and father and brother are working—
All of us working, sweet baby, but you.
Sitting all day a-blinking and winking,
Winking and thinking the whole day long;
Nursey to hold you, no one to scold you,
Crowing and crooning a sweet little song.
Winking and thinking the whole day long;
Nursey to hold you, no one to scold you,
Crowing and crooning a sweet little song.
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Crooning and tuning myself to the lessons
That seem very strange to me, fresh from the skies,
Learning your language and learning to love you,
Watching you all with my blue baby eyes.
That seem very strange to me, fresh from the skies,
Learning your language and learning to love you,
Watching you all with my blue baby eyes.
Then, when I've grown as wise as my brother,
These dimpled white hands as strong as his, too;
Oh! then I will help you; now, thinking and loving
Are surely enough for a baby to do.
These dimpled white hands as strong as his, too;
Oh! then I will help you; now, thinking and loving
Are surely enough for a baby to do.