Poet and The Baby

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h4>THE POET AND THE BABY</h4> <div class="stanza"> <div class="i0">How's a man to write a sonnet, can you tell,&mdash;</div> <br/> <div class="i0">How's he going to weave the dim, poetic spell,&mdash;</div> <br/> <div class="i1">When a-toddling on the floor</div> <br/> <div class="i1">Is the muse he must adore,</div> <br/> <div class="i0">And this muse he loves, not wisely, but too well?</div> <br/></div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="i0">Now, to write a sonnet, every one allows,</div> <br/> <div class="i0">One must always be as quiet as a mouse;</div> <br/> <div class="i1">But to write one seems to me</div> <br/> <div class="i1">Quite superfluous to be,</div> <br/> <div class="i0">When you 've got a little sonnet in the house.</div> <br/></div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="i0">Just a dainty little poem, true and fine,</div> <br/> <div class="i0">That is full of love and life in every line,</div> <br/> <div class="i1">Earnest, delicate, and sweet,</div> <br/> <div class="i1">Altogether so complete</div> <br/> <div class="i0">That I wonder what's the use of writing mine.</div> <br/></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />