My baby girl.

• Author: Sandburg, Carl
• Position: 1912 - Carl Sandburg - Brief article

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Only seven days ago I saw her writhe and take breath, heard her first plaintive cry to her first morning in the world. I had above all else a new sense of a sacredness of life.

All that day and the next, however, I was compelled to draw on my resources of patience and humor. The remark of a startlingly large number of my friends was: "Too bad it's a girl."

Tonight, however, as I hold in my arms this new-come beginner in the game of life, I think I would as life, be this baby girl as any man alive.

If she lives out fifty years, she shall...