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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BIG SISTER'S VALENTINE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography
First Line: The house seems wrongside out to-day
Last Line: "big sister's got a valentine!"
Subject(s): Children; Sisters; Childhood
First Line: The house seems wrongside out to-day
Last Line: "big sister's got a valentine!"
Subject(s): Children; Sisters; Childhood
THE house seems wrongside out to-day,
Big sister acts the queerest way!
At breakfast father said, "My dear,
This tea is somewhat weak, I fear."
And sister said, "I quite forgot
To put the tea into the pot!"
Then when she heard the baby fret
She said, "Whatever's wrong, my pet?"
It took some time for her to think
She'd put no sugar in his drink.
She made Bob's lunch for him, but why
Did she forget to put in pie?
Why did she put Ned's coat on me
And laugh and say she "didn't see"?
Yet all the time she looked so kind
And smiled so nice we didn't mind.
I said quite low to father—"Say,
What makes big sister queer to-day?"
He whispered back, "Small son of mine,
Big sister's got a Valentine!"
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