Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BARBEE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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BARBEE, by                    
First Line: Who is barbee? What sort of a thing
Last Line: As lives in god's heaven above.
Subject(s): Names


Who is Barbee? What sort of a thing
Is saddled with such a strange name?
It has a heathenish kind of a ring,
And sounds like a parlor game.

I hear it each morn, I hear it each night,
It comes from the voice of one
Whose face is lit up with Love's purest light,
My dear little three-year-old son.

A smile on his lips and a gleam in his eye,
A twinkle which tells even me
That mischief is rampant whenever he's nigh
And utters the name of Barbee.

I ask him at times which one he loves best,
And ever and always I hear
That strangest of names he calls with a zest,
'Tis Barbee that he holds most dear.

Now, who is Barbee? I asked him one day,
And great indeed was my joy
To hear this treasure of mine sweetly say,
"Papa's Barbee,—Me Barbee's boy."

Oh happy the man who owns such a name
That is coined from the depths of love,
Which only in children is found just the same
As lives in God's heaven above.





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