Babyhood

1. Here we have a baby. It is composed of bald head and a pair of lungs.
      -Eugene Fieli, The 
        Tribune Primer

2. Where did you come from, baby dear?
    Out of the Everywhere into here.
                                                   -George MacDonald,
                                                  Song in At the Back of
                                                      the North Wind

3. Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top,
    When the wind blows the cradle will rock,
    When the bough bends the cradle will fall,
    Down comes the baby, cradle and all.
                                                              -Old Nursery Rhyme

4. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
       -Psalms. VIII. 2

5. Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber,
            Holy angles guard thy bed!
    Heavenly blessings without number
           Gently falling on thy head.
                                                     -Isaac Watts, A Cradle 
                                                               Hymn

6. Sweetest li'l feller, everybody knows;
    Dunno what to call him, but he is mighty lak' a rose;
    Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue
    Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.
                                                                     -Frank L. Station,
                                                                     Mighty Lak' a Rose