Sue's Got a Baby

Sue's got a baby now, an’ she

Is like her mother used to be;

Her face seems prettier, an’ her ways

More settled-like. In these few days

She's changed completely, an’ her smile

Has taken on the mother-style.

Her voice is sweeter, an’ her words

Are clear as is the song of birds.

She still is Sue, but not the same —

She's different since the baby came.

There is a calm upon her face

That marks the change that's taken place;

It seems as though her eyes now see

The wonder things that are to be,

An’ that her gentle hands now own

A gentleness before unknown.

Her laughter has a clearer ring

Than all the bubbling of a spring,

An’ in her cheeks love's tender flame

Glows brighter since the baby came.

I look at her an’ I can see

Her mother as she used to be.

How sweet she was, an’ yet how much

She sweetened by the magic touch

That made her mother! In her face

It seemed the angels left a trace

Of Heavenly beauty to remain

Where once had been the lines of pain

An’ with the baby in her arms

Enriched her with a thousand charms.

Sue's got a baby now an’ she

Is prettier than she used to be.

A wondrous change has taken place,

A softer beauty marks her face

An’ in the warmth of her caress

There seems the touch of holiness,

An’ all the charms her mother knew

Have blossomed once again in Sue.

I sit an’ watch her an’ I claim

My lost joys since her baby came.