The Babie by Hugh Miller. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

The Babie

Hugh Miller (1802–56)


NAE shoon to hide her tiny taes,
Nae stockings on her feet;
Her supple ankles white as snow
Of early blossoms sweet.

Her simple dress of sprinkled pink,	5
Her double, dimpled chin;
Her pucker’d lip and bonny mou’,
With nae ane tooth between.

Her een sae like her mither’s een,
Twa gentle, liquid things;	10
Her face is like an angel’s face—
We ’re glad she has nae wings.