Just change the last line to "you'll be an adult, my child" or "you'll be a woman, my girl" and move on.
If you can't make a trivial fix to a simple problem, you aren't paying attention to the poem's message.
If you can't make a trivial fix to a simple problem, you aren't paying attention to the poem's message.
It would be like, in the pursuit of lowering your sodium intake, making bread without salt. Is it healthier? Maybe. What does it taste like now? Cardboard.