"The new Arrival"

Levin Daily Chronicle, 20 February 1917, Page 3

"The new Arrival"

* ♦ - E.P—Some twenty-odd years ago a humorous poet announced the Ibirth of a daughter in rhyme:— The poem is "The New Arrival," by George Washington Cable, and reads as follows There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft. Without an inch of rigging on, I looked, iand looked—and laughed! .It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within ,my room— My daughter! Oh, my daughter!

Yet by these presents witness all She's welcome fifty times. And comes oonsigned in hope and love— And common metr-e rhymes. She has no. manifest but- this : No flag floats o'er the water, She's too new for the British Lloyd's— My daughter! Omy daughter. Ring out wild Mis—and tame ones too; Ring out the lover's moon. Ring in the little worsted socks, 'Ring in the bib and spoon. Ring out tho muse, ring in the nurse, Ring in the milk and water, Away , with paper, pen and ink— My daughter! O, my daughter!