“The stork has brought a little peach!”
The nurse said with an air.
“I’m mighty glad,” the father said.
“He didn’t bring a pear.”

May he/she grow twice as tall as yourself
and half as wise.

Grandchildren are gifts of God.
It is God’s way. . .
Of compensating us for growing old.

Father of fathers, make me one,
A fit example for a son.

Every baby born into the world is a finer
one than the last.

A new life begun,
like father, like son.
A generation of children on the children of your children.