FEBRUARY SIXTH
And still the children listed, their blue eyes
Fixed on their mother's face in wide surprise.
Matthew Arnold
FEBRUARY SEVENTH
So we will not sell the Baby!
Your gold and gems and stuff,
Were they ever so rare and precious
Would never be half enough!
For what would we care, My Dearie,
What glory the world put on,
If our beautiful darling was going,
If our beautiful darling was gone.
Selected
FEBRUARY EIGHTH
The happy children! Full of frank surprise,
And sudden whims and innocent ecstacies:
What Godhead sparkles from their liquid eyes.
Edmund Gosse
FEBRUARY NINTH
In him woke
With his first babe's first cry, the noble wish
To save all earnings to the uttermost,
And give his child a better bringing up
Than his had been, or hers.
Tennyson
FEBRUARY TENTH
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joubert