Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY BABY SISTER HAS A BEAU, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON


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MY BABY SISTER HAS A BEAU, by                    
First Line: Of all the changes back at home
Last Line: When girls begin to have a beau.
Subject(s): Aging; Sisters


Of all the changes back at home,
One thought keeps surging to and fro—
It seems so very, very strange
That baby sister has a beau.

Although the world is like a dream,
And years like shadows come and go,
It does seem hardly possible
That little Mabe can have a beau.

It makes me think I'm getting old,
For I was grown you know
When I was teaching her to spell—
And now they say she has a beau!

I hear a lisping toddler say,
"Where you goes I wants to go"—
With bib and blocks and fuzzy head,
She didn't know the name of "beau."

But while the days have slipped away
The child's had time enough to grow—
She's seventeen, and tall and fair—
Why yes, of course, she has a beau!

But while I smile to think of it,
'Tis serious too, because I know
That heartaches often follow on,
When girls begin to have a beau.





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