They are fluttering and fluttering, like birds upon the tree-- Baby bye! Baby bye! Then shut them tight, my precious, one for you and one for me-- Bye oh! Baby bye! Away down in the sheepfold all the lambkins are at rest-- The little chickabiddies in their feathers soft are pressed-- And good old Mammy Nature holds them all upon her breast!-- Bye oh! Baby bye! Um! Um! Um! Um! Bye oh! Baby bye! We say we're men and women at the early dawn of day-- Baby bye! Baby bye! But the sunset finds us children, with tears to wipe away-- Bye oh! Baby bye! No shame to us that stumbled, if we tried to do our part-- No blame to us for falling, if we made an honest start!-- Then take it all to mammy!--lay it all upon her heart-- Bye oh! Baby bye! Um! Um! Um! Um! Bye oh! Baby bye! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PLEASURE MIXED WITH PAIN by THOMAS WYATT TO FLUSH, MY DOG by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE [OUT OF NORFOLK] by WILLIAM COWPER OH! SUSANNA! by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER MEMENTO MORI by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS MEROPE; A TRAGEDY by MATTHEW ARNOLD |