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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUR MOTHER, by MARY ANN EVANS Poet's Biography
First Line: Our mother bade us keep the trodden ways
Last Line: A deep-toned chant from life unknown to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: Our mother bade us keep the trodden ways
Last Line: A deep-toned chant from life unknown to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Mothers
Our mother bade us keep the trodden ways,
Stroked down my tippet, set my brother's frill,
Then with the benediction of her gaze,
Clung to us lessening and pursued us still
Across the homestead to the rookery elms
Whose tall old trunks had each a grassy mound,
So rich for us we counted them as realms
With varied products; here were earth nuts found
And here the Lady-fingers in deep shade,
Here sloping toward the moat the rushes grew,
The large to split for pith, the small to braid
While over all the dark rooks cawing flew --
And made a happy strange solemnity
A deep-toned chant from life unknown to me.
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