A MOTHER'S LOVE.
A mother's love, tho fadeless light That glimmers o'er our weary way j A star amid the clouds of night, An ever-burning-, quenchless ray. A guarding powei, thro' good and ill ; Where'er the truant footsteps rove ; A ceaseless, flowing, sparkling rill, A fount of hope, a mother's love. A mother's love ! It whispers first Above the cradled infant's head ; And -when tlmse human blossoms burst, Her borom's still the floweret's bed. When their b ight summer d.iy has pa-.t, And autumn clonds king dark above, It lingers round us to the la^t ; That dearest boon— a mother's love. And yet how oft our footsteps ro.un Thro' pleasure's bright, alJuiing maze. Forgetful of the ties of home And all the joys of earlier days ; But there's a diann to lure them back, And, like the weary, wandering dove, The heart retreads its childhood's tracks To that one ark— a mother's love !
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 345, 23 February 1889, Page 8
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153A MOTHER'S LOVE. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 345, 23 February 1889, Page 8
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