Baby’s Name [poem by L. E. Homfray, 5 December 1925]

[Editor: This poem, by L. E. Homfray, was published in The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW), 5 December 1925.]

Baby’s Name

I’m a little baby,
Nearly two years old,
Sometimes very naughty,
Sometimes good as gold.

“What a darling baby!”
All my aunties say,
When they come from Sydney
Just to spend the day.

“She’s the dizzy limit,”
That’s what Daddy said,
When, at five, I woke him,
Scrambling on his bed.

“Well, you are a terror,”
Mother says to me,
When I pop some butter
In her cup of tea.

Though these people call me
Every kind of name,
Yet they seem to love me
Very much the same!

— L. E. HOMFRAY.

Source:
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW), 5 December 1925, p. 6