],
quarter-staff, and cudgel-play, in which he took
great pleasure.—Dr. Arbuthnot,
History of John
Bull
, ii. (1712).
Baby Bell, the infant whose brief beautiful life is given in the poem that first drew the eyes of the world to the young American poet, T.B. Aldrich, then but nineteen years of age.
Have you not heard the poets tell
How came the dainty Baby Bell
Into this World of ours?
The gates of heaven were left ajar: