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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DIFFERENT WAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poet's Biography
First Line: Mothers have a way with them
Last Line: Only in a different way.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: Mothers have a way with them
Last Line: Only in a different way.
Subject(s): Mothers
Mothers have a way with them
Different from others, lad:
Love is every day with them,
When you're merry, when you're sad.
There is lots of other love
That will come some happy day;
But the love of mother-love
Seems to love a different way.
Many, lad, the clever friend
You will have in hours of dawn;
But your great forever friend,
When the other friends are gone,
You will find is Mother, lad --
You will never, what befall,
Ever have another, lad,
Like your mother, after all.
Put your arm around her, lad,
She is hungry for your kiss;
Not a friend you've found, my lad,
Half as good a friend as this.
There are fairer faces, lad --
Yet this woman wan and gray
God gave greater graces, lad,
Only in a different way.
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