Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOTHER'S SONGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: Our mother sings quite different songs
Last Line: Seem far and far away!
Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers


OUR mother sings quite different songs
From those we learn at school
And we all think that mother's songs
Are nicer as a rule—

There's one quite lovely one that tells
About "Sweet Ella Rhree,"
And one of "Darling Nellie Gray,"
And one of "Rosa Lee."

And one about a "Minstrel Boy,"
Who to the war has gone,
And all about his father's sword
That he has girded on.

There's one about "Toll, Toll the Bell,"
(For dark-eyed laughing Nell),
And one called "Swinging in the Lane,"
I like it specially well.

Another one goes very high
About an "Evening Star,"
And "Blue Alsatian Mountains," too,
(I wonder where they are!)

In fact the songs we sing at school
Are just plain everyday,
But all the songs that mother sings
Seem far and far away!





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