Friday 11 July 2014

Beautiful Mothers
Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I’ve grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due.



The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
and out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo -
but I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren’t her eyes the most wonderful hue?


The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.
~~
With Love Mina & Christ


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