TIRED MOTHERS.
AnTTi.E.elbow leans upon your knee— Your tired knee, that'his so much to; bear.; A child's dear eyes are lodking lovingly Trom underneath a thatch of -tangled hair. Perhaps you do not heed the velvettouch Of warm, moiat -fingers holding yours bo tight ! ' You do not prize the blessing overmuch— You almost are -too tired to :pray to- • night. But'it i 3 blessedness! A. year ago I did-not see it as'l do to-day— We are all so dull and thankless, and too slow To: catch the sunshine till it slips away. I And now it seemg surpassing strange to > me
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 709, 2 January 1877, Page 3
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101TIRED MOTHERS. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 709, 2 January 1877, Page 3
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