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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOME AND MOTHER, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: What is home without a mother?'
Last Line: Then, at last, we'll understand.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: What is home without a mother?'
Last Line: Then, at last, we'll understand.
Subject(s): Mothers
"What Is Home Without a Mother?" There's the
motto on the wall, hanging in a place obtrusive, where it
may be seen by all; and the question's never answered--
we can't know what home would be, if its gentle guardian
angel in her place no more we'd see. Mother washes all
the dishes and she's sweeping up the floors, while the girls
are in the parlor doing Paderewski chores; mother's breaking
up some kindling at the woodpile by the gate, while
the boys are in the garden with their shovels, digging bait;
mother's on her knees a-scrubbing, where the careless foot-prints
are, while the father sits in comfort, toiling at a bad
cigar. Mother sits with weary fingers, and with bent and
aching head, sewing, darning, for the children while they're
all asleep in bed; mother's up before the sunrise, up to
labor and to moil, thinking ever of the others, in the weary
round of toil. What is home without a mother? That
we'll never realize till the light of life has faded from the
kind and patient eyes; when the implements of labor fall
unheeded from her hand, and the loving voice is silent--
then, at last, we'll understand.
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