Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MOTHER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE


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First Line: There will be a singing in your heart
Last Line: You, with god's own glory in your eyes.
Subject(s): Mothers


THERE will be a singing in your heart,
There will be a rapture in your eyes;
You will be a woman set apart,
You will be so wondeful and wise.
You will sleep, and when from dreams you start,
As of one that wakes in Paradise,
There will be a singing in your heart,
There will be a rapture in your eyes.

There will be a moaning in your heart,
There will be an anguish in your eyes;
You will see your dearest ones depart,
You will hear their quivering good-byes.
Yours will be the heart-ache and the smart,
Tears that scald and lonely sacrifice;
There will be a moaning in your heart,
There will be an anguish in your eyes.

There will come a glory in your eyes,
There will come a peace within your heart;
Sitting 'neath the quiet evening skies,
Time will dry the tears and dull the smart.
You will know that you have played your part;
Yours shall be the love that never dies:
You, with Heaven's peace within your heart,
You, with God's own glory in your eyes.






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