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ON A YOUNG LADY'S SIXTH ANNIVERSARY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD

First Line: BABY BABBLES - ONLY ONE
Last Line: YOU WILL SOON PUT UP YOUR HAIR!
Subject(s): BIRTHDAYS;

Baby Babbles -- only one,
Now to sit up has begun.

Little Babbles quite turned two
Walks as well as I and you.

And Miss Babbles one, two, three,
Has a teaspoon at her tea.

But her Highness at four
Learns to open the front door.

And her Majesty -- now six,
Can her shoestrings neatly fix.

Babbles, babbles, have a care,
You will soon put up your hair!



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