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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 13, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 2.

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Baby’s Smile

By Louis M. Waterman

FULL hard his face; for pelf and place, Rough rivalry in bargains keen Had made a man the mere machine To grind and get of profits’ net Enough to keep his balance clean. To such a face a baby smiled: The thing of iron became a child!
Full false her face; with rapid pace The alchemy of fashion’s wiles, Transforming graces into guiles, Made beauty’s tryst, once angel-kissed, The sportive haunt of hollow smiles. Yet lo, when baby laughed and cooed, A soul from out that face was wooed!
So any face, how low or base, How marred or scarred by any ill, To semblance of God’s image will Return again the instant when Of baby’s smile it drinks its fill. For baby’s smile is Love’s device To lure us back to paradise!
— Louis M. Waterman.