Came little Bess from her nap;

The nurse said, “Go into mother’s room,

And look in grandmother’s lap.”

“Come here,” said grandmother, with a smile,

From the rocking-chair where she sat;

“God has sent you two little brothers;

Now what do you think of that?”

Bess looked at the babies a moment,

With their wee heads, yellow and brown,

And then to grandmother soberly said,