There's something new at our house; I'm s'prised you didn't know it.
It makes papa awful proud, although he hates to show it.
The thing is not so very big, but money couldn't buy it;
If any fellow thinks it could, I'd like to see him try it.
It's half a dozen things at once -- a dove, a love, a flower;
Mamma calls it a hundred names, and new ones every hour;
It is a little music-box with tunes for every minute;
You haven't got one at your house, and so you are not in it.
It puckers up its wee, wee mouth, as if it meant to whistle;
A gold mine weighed against it then were lighter than a thistle;
Papa said so the other night; I thought it sounded splendid,
And said it to myself until I fell asleep and ended.
Of course you've guessed it by this time, our gift that came from heaven --
Mamma declared the darling thing was by the angels given;
But then some folks are very slow, and some are stupid, maybe.
I ought to say, right straight and plain, come home and see our baby.
First published in Australian Town and Country Journal, 26 October 1895
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
It makes papa awful proud, although he hates to show it.
The thing is not so very big, but money couldn't buy it;
If any fellow thinks it could, I'd like to see him try it.
It's half a dozen things at once -- a dove, a love, a flower;
Mamma calls it a hundred names, and new ones every hour;
It is a little music-box with tunes for every minute;
You haven't got one at your house, and so you are not in it.
It puckers up its wee, wee mouth, as if it meant to whistle;
A gold mine weighed against it then were lighter than a thistle;
Papa said so the other night; I thought it sounded splendid,
And said it to myself until I fell asleep and ended.
Of course you've guessed it by this time, our gift that came from heaven --
Mamma declared the darling thing was by the angels given;
But then some folks are very slow, and some are stupid, maybe.
I ought to say, right straight and plain, come home and see our baby.
First published in Australian Town and Country Journal, 26 October 1895
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
