Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 173
f!No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief !A little weeping would ease my heart; 142 A Book of Famous Poems But in their briny bedMy tears must stop, for every dropHinders needle and thread! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,… … TO A OHILB EMBRACINa HIS MOTHER. I. ^ 0VE thy mother, little one! Kiss and clasp her neck again, —Hereafter she may have a sonWill kiss and clasp her neck in vain.Love thy mother, little one 1
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