Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PARTING OF A MOTHER WITH HER CHILD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY


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First Line: He knew her not, that fair, young boy
Last Line: And know thy mother there.
Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The


HE knew her not, that fair, young boy, --
Though cradled on her breast,
He learn'd his earliest infant joy,
And took his nightly rest,
For stern disease had blanch'd the brow
Once to his gaze so dear,
And to a whisper chang'd the voice
That best he loved to hear.

So, stranger-like, he wondering gazed,
While wild emotions swell,
As with a deathlike, cold embrace,
She breathed her last farewell,
And to the Almighty's hand gave back
The idol of her trust,
And with a glorious hope went down
To slumber in the dust.

Go, blooming babe, and early seek
The path she trod below,
And, still with Christian meekness, strive
To pluck the sting from woe --
That so, to that all-glorious clime,
Unmarked by pain or care,
Thou, in thy Saviour's strength mayest come
And know thy mother there.





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