Oh, little girl with eyes of brown <br />And smiles that fairly light the town, <br />I wonder if you really know <br />Just why it is we love you so, <br />And why- with all the little girls <br />With shining eyes and tangled curls <br />That throng and dance this big world through- <br />Our hearts have room for only you. <br /> <br />Since other little girls are gay <br />And laugh and sing and romp in play, <br />And all are beautiful to see, <br />Why should you mean so much to me? <br />And why should Mother, day and night, <br />Make you her source of all delight, <br />And always find in your caress <br />Her greatest sum of happiness? <br /> <br />Oh, there's a reason good for this, <br />You laughing little bright-eyed miss! <br />In all this town, with all its girls <br />With shining eyes and sun-kissed curls, <br />If we should search it through and through <br />We'd find not one so fair as you; <br />And none, however fair of face, <br />Within our hearts could take your place. <br /> <br />For, one glad day not long ago, <br />God sent you down to us below, <br />And said that you were ours to keep, <br />To guard awake and watch asleep; <br />And ever since the day you came <br />No other child has seemed the same; <br />No other smiles are quite so fair <br />As those which happily you wear. <br /> <br />We seem to live from day to day <br />To hear the things you have to say; <br />And just because God gave us you, <br />We prize the little things you do. <br />Though God has filled this world with flowers, <br />We like you best because you're ours- <br />In you our greatest joys we know, <br />And that is why we love you so.<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-little-girl-2/
