TO MY LITTLE COUSIN, WITH HER FIRST BONNET. BY MISS BOWLES. FAIRIES! guard the baby's bonnet ! Set a special watch upon it; Elfin people! to your care I commit it, fresh and fair; Neat as neatness,-white as snow,-- See ye keep it ever so. Watch and ward set all about, Some within, and some without : Over it, with dainty hand, A score, at least, on either side, And so the precious charge convey The bonnet and the babe also. Gift it to protect her well, And the bonny babe! on her As much of frankness, bland and free, And with ye, parts the playful vein, Befits me better, babe! for thee |