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A daughter and a goodly babe,Much comfort in 't.
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And though she be but little, she is fierce.
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A grievous burthen was thy birth to me;Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy.
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Have you not heard the poets tellInto this world of ours?
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A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel,Perplex'd with the newly found fardel of life.
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A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping.
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How did they all just come to be you?God thought about me and so I grew.
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Where did you come from, baby dear?Out of the Everywhere into here.
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A sweet, new blossom of Humanity,Fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth.
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As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.
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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
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A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.
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