Gone To School

The baby has gome to school ! Ah mei ÍWhat wijl the mother do-, Vfith never a cali to button or pin, Or tie a little ehoe ? How can ghe keep herself busy all day Witfo the little "hindering thing" away ? Amother basket to fill with lunch, Amotter "good-bye" to say, Arad the mother stands at the door to see Her baby marcihi away, And turns -jvlth a eiigh that is half relif And half of somethimg aktn to Hef. She thinks of a possible future mom. Whem the children, one by one, Will go from tlieiT home out rato the worM, To battle wKth liíe alome; Amd not e-ren the baby ie left to cheer The desolate home of that future year She picks up the garments here and there, Tlid-o-win down in careless haste, And tries to think how it would seeiri If notbing were displaced; If the hyuse Avere ahvays as still as this, How oouiM she bear the lonelioess