BABY'S PRICE.
"How much would you take for baby, Happy mother, fair and fond?" "Take for baby? Sir, his value Is to me all price beyond. Could you offer all the jewels, All the wealth the world contains; You would only get a mother's Indignation for your pains!"
"How much would I take for baby?
Though you speak perhaps in jest; Yet the question, sir, arouses
All the mother in my breast. What were life to me without him?
Darling, precious baby boy! Just a desert, nothing better, Hopeless, empty, void of joy!
"How much would I take for baby? You're a bachelor, say I. Or you'd know a baby's value (Treasure that no gold can buy!) When you're married, with a darling Of your own upon your knee,— You will doubtless solve the question That to-day you've put to me!" —WYCH ELM.
Moeraki, September 1.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1875, 28 October 1887, Page 29
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146BABY'S PRICE. Otago Witness, Issue 1875, 28 October 1887, Page 29
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