Half-Past-Six and I were talking In a very grown-up way; We had got so tired with running That we did not want to play. "How do babies come, I wonder," He said, looking at the sky, "Does God mix the things together An' just make it-like a pie?" I was really not quite certain, But it sounded very nice; It was all that we could think of, Besides a book said "sugar and spice." Half-Past-Six said -- He's so clever -- Cleverer than me, I mean... "I suppose God makes the black ones When the saucepan isn't clean." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON TROAS: ACT II. LATTER END OF THE CHORUS by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN SONG OF SOLOMON 2: 10-13. SPRING by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE CLIFF-TOP by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES HAPPINESS by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL |