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,