NOBODY ELSE.

Te Aroha News, 15 February 1890, Page 8

NOBODY ELSE.

Two little hands so careful and brisk Patting the tea-things away ; While mother is resting awhile in her chair, Per she has been busy all day'. Aqd the. dear little fingers arc working for love, Although they are tender and wee, “ I’ll do it so nicely,” she says to herself—- “ There’s nobody else, you see.” Two littlo feci ju-t scampered upstairs, For daddy will quickly be bore; And his shoes must be ready and warm by the fire, That is burning so bright andso clear, Then she must climb on a chair to keep watch; “He cannot come in without me, When mother is tired, I open the door — There’s nobody else, you see.” Two little arms round daddy’s dear neck, And a soft, downy cheek ’gainst his own; For out of the nest so cosy and bright, The little ore’s mother has flown. She brushes the teardrops away, as she thinks, “Now he has no one but me, I musn’t give way ; that would make him so sad— And there’s nobody else, you see.”

Two little tears on the pillow, just shed, Dropped from the two pretty eyes, Two little arms stretching out in the dark, Two littlo faint sobbing cries. “Daddy forgot I was always waked up When 1 e whispeied good-night to me. O mother, como back just to kiss me in bed — There’s nobody else, you see.”

Little true-liearf, if mother can look Out from her home in the skies, She will not pass on to her haven ofrest While the tears dim her little one’s eyes If God has shed sorrow around us just now, Yet his sunshine is ever to be ! And he is the comfort for every one’s pain— Thsre’s nobody else, you see.