And stood admiring with a mother’s joy;
Large was it made and long, as meant to do }
For Sunday-service, when he older grew— }
Not brought in daily use in one year’s wear or two. }
White was his waistcoat, and what else he wore
Had clothed the lamb or parent ewe before;
In all the mother show’d her care or skill; 210
A riband black she tied beneath his frill;
Gave him his stockings, white as driven snow,
And bad him heed the miry way below;