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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINKS WITH HEAVEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poet's Biography
First Line: Our god in heaven from that holy place
Last Line: The little children pleading for their mothers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: Our god in heaven from that holy place
Last Line: The little children pleading for their mothers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Mothers
OUR God in Heaven from that holy place
To each of us an angel guide has given;
But Mothers of dead children have more grace,--
For they give angels to their God and Heaven.
How can a Mother's heart feel cold or weary
Knowing her dearer self safe, happy, warm?
How can she feel her road too dark or dreary
Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm?
How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding,
Our God forgot, our holy saints defied;
But can a mother hear her dead child pleading,
And thrust those little angel hands aside?
Those little hands stretched down to draw her ever
Nearer to God by mother love:--we all
Are blind and weak, yet surely she can never,
With such a stake in Heaven, fail or fall!
She knows that when the mighty Angels raise
Chorus in Heaven, one little silver tone
Is hers forever, that one little praise,
One little happy voice, is all her own.
Ah, saints in Heaven may pray with earnest will
And pity for their weak and erring brothers;
Yet there is prayer in Heaven more tender still,--
The little Children pleading for their Mothers.
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