Blue Jeans Girl: Wise words

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Wise words

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."Chinese Proverb

Pin It

1 comment:

m.m. said...: .....XOXOXOXOXOXOXO !!!!!!!!!!; May 25, 2012 at 8:55 AM

Post a Comment

SONG FOR A FIFTH CHILD
by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton, 1958

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
but I'm, playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

Pages

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Wise words

1 comment: