BABY HAS GONE TO SCHOOL
The baby has gone to school; ah me! What will the mother do, With never a call to button or pin, Or tie a little shoe? How can she keep herself busy all day With the little ' hindering thing ' away?
Another basket to fill with lunch, Another good-bye to say, And the mother stands at the door to see Her baby march away. And turns with a sigh that is half relief, And half a something akin to grief.
She thinks of a possible future morn, When the children one by one Will go from their home out into the world, To battle with life alone, And not even the baby be left to cheer The desolate home of that future year.
She picks up garments here and there, Thrown down in careless haste, And tries to think how it would seem If nothing were displaced ; If the hours were always as still as this, How could sh- tear the loneliness?
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New Zealand Tablet, 19 November 1908, Page 37
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166BABY HAS GONE TO SCHOOL New Zealand Tablet, 19 November 1908, Page 37
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