THE SUPERLATIVE.
How shall we say it? How express The measuring words of the measureless? For it's just as sweet as a baby. There! How else can I measure it? how compare? The honeyed dew on the morning clover ? The song of the lark where the blue bends over? What the advantage, or what the hope Of any hyperbole, metaphor, trope? Can any of these express the thrall Of a baby's sweetness? Not at all. Image and simile rise and fall, But sweet as baby tells it all. Ah ! how define the superlative elf But to use its own superlative self, S° it's just as dear as a baby. There! . The last word's said and the rest is air. If love be joy, does any joy cling More close to the heart than this wee thing? If love be service, is not this mite Served by us gladly, clay and night? 0, some love place and a courtier-crawl, And some love name and a soldier-brawl, Ancl some love fame and a poet scrawl, But the love^tf a baby tops them aIL
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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181THE SUPERLATIVE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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