This happy Baby on the tree-top dangling

Whilst friends and foes about thy fate are wrangling!

When the wind blows—ah! then the world shall see

What a prophetic soul has kind Nurse C.

Its face, perchance, had been more bright and bland

Could kind Nurse C. have "brought it up by hand,"

As Mrs. Gargery did the infant "Pip."

Nay, there are some who on the hint let slip

That kind Nurse C. had never wished it slain

Had it but in another Chamber lain!