Part 102 (1/2)

MOTHER

Can'st thou, e shall shed Its blanching honors on thy weary head, Could from our best of duties ever shrink?

Sooner the sun frorateful, leave thee in that day To pine in solitude thy life away, Or shun thee, tottering on the grave's cold brink

Banish the thought!--where'er our stepsplains, or wastes without a tree Still will fond memory point our hearts to thee, And paint the pleasures of thy peaceful hoe And se

--_Henry Kirke White_

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MY MOTHER

My mother! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed?

I heard the bells tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee sloay; And, turning froh, and wept a last adieu!

Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learned at last subot

--_Cowper_

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An ounce of y

--_Spanish Proverb_

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A MOTHER'S EXAMPLE

It was a judicious resolution of a father, as well as aasked by a friend what he intended to do with his girls, he replied: ”I intend to apprentice the time, and be fitted to become wives, mothers, heads of families, and useful members of society” Equally just, but very different, was the rehtless--”It is hard to say, but if , they must be sent out of the way of their mother's example”

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A MOTHER'S SORROWS

My son! my son! I cannot speak the rest-- Ye who have sons can only know my fondness!

Ye who have lost thes! none else can guess them; A mother's sorrows cannot be conceived But by a mother!

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Pomponius Atticus, who pronounced a funeral oration on the death of his h he had resided with her sixty-seven years, he was never once reconciled to her; ”because,” said he, ”there never happened the least discord between us, and consequently there was no need of reconciliation”

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