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Source: Cleveland Press Source type: newspaper Document type: poem Document title: “Babies in the White House” Author(s): Cooke, Edmund Vance City of publication: Cleveland, Ohio Date of publication: 25 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: 7258 Pagination: 1 |
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| Cooke, Edmund Vance. “Babies in the White House.” Cleveland Press 25 Sept. 1901 n7258: p. 1. |
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| Keywords |
| Roosevelt family (poetry); White House (poetry); Theodore Roosevelt (poetry). |
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| none. |
| Notes |
| The poem accompanies an editorial cartoon based on the same theme. |
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Babies in the White House
Children in the White House, half a dozen sizes,
Cooing and a-crowing,
Half-grown and growing:—
Who wouldn’t be a president for such a set of prizes?Blessings on the little tots, little tots and larger;
Bubbling and a-babbling,
Gamboling and gabbling;—
Little rough riders with a papa’s knee a charger.Children in the White House, never still a minute.
Old room and new room,
Red room and blue room;—
But how can any room be blue that has a baby in it?Over all the White House, let them romp and run,
Largest room and least room,
Green room and east room;—
Every room’s an east room that has a rising son.Blessings on the White House, and twenty million more.
To make a home a White House,
A sunny, white and bright house,
There’s nothing else the equal of a baby on the floor.A goodly house the White House, but who would think it strange
Not a cottage resident
Would take it from the President
And swap his little cottage-full of babies in the change.