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PLEASE help me find this poem!

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WelshMoth · 10/08/2019 01:23

I was given a card when DD1 was born and I've put it safely away somewhere. Inside, the sender had written a simple poem about having a newborn baby girl and its simplicity was beautiful.

It was a simple lay out, think 8 syllables first line, then 6, then repeat.
One line was changeable according to the day she was born i.e. "...one Tuesday morn..." and I'm pretty certain the last line was "My daughter. Oh, my daughter."

Can anyone recognise this?

OP posts:
WelshMoth · 10/08/2019 01:25

Just remembered another fragment of a line... something about being delivered in an unusual little craft.

OP posts:
Iggi999 · 10/08/2019 01:49

Here you go...
allpoetry.com/The-New-Arrival

Iggi999 · 10/08/2019 02:11

The New Arrival by George Washington Cable

THERE came to port last Sunday night

The queerest little craft,

Without an inch of rigging on;

I looked and looked—and laughed!

It seemed so curious that she

Should cross the Unknown water,

And moor herself within my room—

My daughter! O, my daughter!

Yet by these presents witness all

She ’s welcome fifty times,

And comes consigned in hope and love—

And common-metre rhymes.

She has no manifest but this;

No flag floats o’er the water;

She ’s too new for the British Lloyds—

My daughter! O, my daughter!

Ring out, wild bells—and tame ones too;

Ring out the lover’s moon.

Ring in the little worsted socks,

Ring in the bib and spoon.

Ring out the muse, ring in the nurse,

Ring in the milk and water.

Away with paper, pen, and ink—

My daughter! O, my daughter!

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WelshMoth · 10/08/2019 07:50

@Iggi999 oh my gosh you LEGEND! I love you!!!

A dear friend of mine has just birthed a premmie baby girl and her strength and love is shining out of her. I'm going to write this in her card.

Thanks SO much Thanks

OP posts:
iggi999 · 10/08/2019 13:58

You're very welcome! Smile
Best wishes to your friend and her little one x

writersbeenblocked · 10/08/2019 14:04

You sound like a lovely friend, OP Smile

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