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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poet's Biography
First Line: To you, dear mother heart, whose hair is gray
Last Line: You know, dear heart, you know.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: To you, dear mother heart, whose hair is gray
Last Line: You know, dear heart, you know.
Subject(s): Mothers
To you, dear mother heart, whose hair is gray
Above this page to-day,
Whose face, though lined with many a smile and care,
Grows year by year more fair,
Be tenderest tribute set in perfect rhyme,
That haply passing time
May cull and keep it for strange lips to pay
When we have gone our way;
And, to strange men, weary of field and street,
Should this, my song, seem sweet,
Yours be the joy, for all that made it so
You know, dear heart, you know.
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