<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391820" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Helen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our Helen is a 'perfect love'<br>Of a blue-eyed baby;<br>When she's grown she'll be a belle,<br>And a 'Venus,' may be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such a cunning little mouth,<br>Lips as red as cherry,<br>And she smiles on all around<br>In a way so merry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Laughs, and crows, and claps her hands,<br>Springs, and hops, and dances,<br>As if her little brain overflowed<br>With lively, tripping fancies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then she'll arch her pretty neck,<br>And toss her head so queenly,<br>And, when she's weary, fall asleep<br>And slumber so serenely.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She has a cunning kind of way<br>Of looking sly and witty,<br>As if to say, in baby words,<br>'I know I'm very pretty.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She bites her 'mammy,' scratches 'nurse,'<br>And makes droll mouths at 'pappy;'<br>We can but love the roguish thing,<br>She looks so bright and happy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dinner-table seems to be<br>The crown of all her wishes,<br>For there the gypsy's sure to have<br>A hand in all the dishes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But why should we essay to sing<br>Her thousand sprightly graces?<br>She has the merriest of ways,<br>The prettiest of faces.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We know she'll grow a peerless one,<br>With skin all white and pearly;<br>And laughing eyes, and auburn locks,<br>All silky, soft and curly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her baby laugh and sportive glee,<br>Her spirit's airy lightness,<br>Surround the pleasant prairie home<br>With hues of magic brightness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</a><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=391820" data-title="Our Helen de Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" data-description="Our Helen is a 'perfect love' Of a blue-eyed baby; When she's grown she'll be a belle, And a 'Venus,' may be. Such a cunning little mouth, Lips as red as cherry, And she smiles on all around In a way so merry. Laughs, and crows, and claps her ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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