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Classic and Contemporary Poetry

THE NEW SISTER by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: SAY, PETE, DO YOU LIKE HER?
Last Line: "WE SHOULD GO IN ONCE MORE AND BID ""BABY"" GOOD NIGHT!"
Subject(s): BABIES; INFANTS;
@3Phil@1. SAY, Pete, do you like her?
@3Pete@1. Like! love her you mean!
@3Phil@1. Ain't she jolly and red?
@3Pete@1. And hurrah for her! just think of her head!
@3Phil@1. As big as a pippin, and round as a bullet!
@3Pete@1. And bald! oh! as bald as a newly-plucked pullet!
@3Phil@1. Did you look at her eyes too?
@3Pete@1. Of course; they are blue.
@3Phil@1. Not a bit of it -- black!
@3Pete@1. Blue, I tell you -- ask Jack!
@3Phil@1. Jack! I've eyes of my own that see better than his!
@3Pete@1. Brag on! but for once they have led you amiss.
Baby's eyes are blue -- very!
@3Phil@1. As black as a berry!
@3Pete@1. Blue, you ninny! but s'pose we come down to her nose!
It's as funny and fat with an end like --
@3Phil@1. Like a rose?
@3Pete@1. No! a small dab of putty just tinted with pink!
@3Phil@1. Now, stoo-pid! how can you! I'm sure that I think
Nothing nicer than roses so dumpy and smug --
@3Pete@1. Pshaw! you mean it's a boo-ti-ful, boo-ti-ful pug!
@3Phil@1. Well, you naughty old Pete! you can't laugh at her chin!
@3Pete@1. Oh, no, it's the nattiest, sauciest, sweetest --
@3Phil@1. The nicest, completest,
Of arch little chins, with a dimple put in,
That winks up like a sunbeam,
@3Pete@1. And then her wee throat!
@3Phil@1. Her throat like egg-foam, or a syllabub boat
On a lake of clear cream!
@3Pete@1. And her arms; they are nice now;
There's nothing can beat them!
@3Phil@1. So plump, round, and soft! I'm most ready to eat them!
@3Pete@1. Of course, Phil, you kissed her?
@3Phil@1. Oh, didn't I!
@3Pete@1. Well!
@3Phil@1. Well, I put my mouth down; I had something to tell;
Ah! close whispered close in the shy little ear,
That seemed to turn up, Pete, half coyly to hear,
And again, as I kissed her --
@3Pete@1. You blessed the good Lord for so jolly a sister!
@3Phil@1. Yes, I did!
@3Pete@1. So did I!
@3Phil@1. And now, Pete, 'tis but right
We should go in once more and bid "Baby" good night!



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