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IN sunny girlhood's vernal life

She caused no small sensation;

But now the modest English wife

To others leaves flirtation.

She's young still, lovely, debonair,

Although sometimes her features

Are clouded by a thought of care

For those two tiny creatures.

Each tiny, toddling, mottled mite

Asserts with voice emphatic,

In lisping accents, "Mite is right" —

Their rule is autocratic:

The song becomes, that charmed mankind,

Their musical narcotic,

And baby lips, than Love, she'll find,

Are even more despotic!

Soft lullaby, when singing there,

And castles ever building —

Their destiny she'll carve in air,

Bright with maternal gilding:

Young Guy, a clever advocate —

So eloquent and able!

A powdered wig upon his pate,

A coronet for Mabel!