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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MOTHER'S PLACE, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: No earthly friend can fill a mother's place
Last Line: Quick to interpret and to gratify
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: No earthly friend can fill a mother's place
Last Line: Quick to interpret and to gratify
Subject(s): Mothers
NO earthly friend can fill a mother's place!
There is an instinct love, an added sense,
Within a mother's breast, that draweth hence
Rare quickness of perception, to discern
Her offspring's wants. She needeth not to learn
By voice or gesture. Swift her footsteps glide,
Noiseless as Silence's self; and at the side
Of her beloved one, with love's strength inspired,
She is content to watch for hours untired--
To move the weary limb, and soft recline
The aching head; the language of a sigh,
Wishes unshaped in words, by glance or sign,
Quick to interpret and to gratify.
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