<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37954" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Weighing The Baby</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"How many pounds does baby weigh -<br>Baby who came but a month ago?<br>How many pounds from the crowning curl<br>To the rosy point of the restless toe?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grandfather ties the 'kerchief knot,<br>Tenderly guides the swinging weight,<br>And carefully over his glasses peers<br>To read the record, "only eight."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Softly the echo goes around:<br>The father laughs at the tiny girl;<br>The fair young mother sings the words,<br>While grandmother smooths the golden curl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And stooping above the precious thing,<br>Nestles a kiss within a prayer,<br>Murmuring softly "Little one,<br>Grandfather did not weigh you fair."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nobody weighed the baby's smile,<br>Or the love that came with the helpless one;<br>Nobody weighed the threads of care,<br>From which a woman's life is spun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No index tells the mighty worth<br>Of a little baby's quiet breath -<br>A soft, unceasing metronome,<br>Patient and faithful until death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nobody weighed the baby's soul,<br>For here on earth no weights there be<br>That could avail; God only knows<br>Its value in eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only eight pounds to hold a soul<br>That seeks no angel's silver wing,<br>But shrines it in this human guise,<br>Within so frail and small a thing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, mother! laugh your merry note,<br>Be gay and glad, but don't forget<br>From baby's eyes looks out a soul<br>That claims a home in Eden yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ethel+Lynn+Beers">Ethel Lynn Beers</a> from <i>The Home Book of Verse, American and English</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37954" data-title="Weighing The Baby de Ethel Lynn Beers" data-description=""How many pounds does baby weigh -/Baby who came but a month ago?/How many pounds from the crowning curl/To the rosy point of the restless toe?"/Grandfather ties the 'kerchief knot,/Tenderly guides the swinging weight,/And carefully over his glass..."></div> </div> </div>

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